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Indiana Medical Malpractice and Heart Attacks: Late Treatment Can Lead to Death
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. Unfortunately, many of these deaths are the result of doctors failing to promptly diagnose and treat patients experiencing a heart attack. A study in the prestigious New...
Limiting Indiana Medical Malpractice Rights Won’t Lower Health Care Costs
As the debate over national health care has intensified, some have proposed limiting the rights of victims of medical malpractice as a way to lower health care costs. Such proposals are designed to protect negligent health care providers and have little or no impact...
Most Indiana Medical Malpractice Committed by Same Physicians
Indiana patients are injured every day as a result of medical errors by Indiana physicians. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these errors are committed by a relatively small number of physicians. A 2002 study by the consumer group Public Citizen revealed that...
Medical Errors in Diagnosing Appendicitis Can Be Fatal
Indiana doctors' errors in the diagnosis of appendicitis can lead to severe injury or death. Appendicitis is the most common cause of emergency surgery for children. Unfortunately, appendicitis is also one of the conditions in children most commonly misdiagnosed by...
Medication Errors in Indiana Result in Injuries, Deaths
Indiana residents are injured and killed every year as a result of prescription medication errors. Indiana's experience is mirrored on a national level. A 2006 report from the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine estimated that 1.5 million people every...
Indiana Medical Malpractice Cases Are Tough to Win
Patients pursuing medical malpractice claims in Indiana and elsewhere face long odds of winning at trial. According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, patients won only 22.7% of all medical malpractice cases tried in the United States in...
Indiana’s Medical Malpractice Act — Injured Patients Face a Stacked Deck
The Indiana Medical Malpractice Act was passed by the legislature in 1975. Indiana's governor at the time? Otis Bowen, M.D. Not surprisingly, the law ushered in under Dr. Bowen's leadership favors physicians over the victims of their malpractice. The Indiana Medical...
The Indiana Medical Malpractice Act’s Damages CAP — Time for a Raise?
When the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act was enacted in 1975, one of its most notable features was the hard cap it placed on an injured patient's right to recovery. No matter how badly injured the patient was by the malpractice; no matter how much income the patient...