Medical Malpractice
The ABA Stands with Patients: HR 1215 is Dangerous
The American Bar Association has more than 400,000 members, and it one of the largest voluntary organizations in the world. When the group takes a stand, it does so knowing that it has the power of nearly half a million people behind it. That is why this letter from Thomas M. Susman, Director of the…
Read MoreAccording to the Nurses, the ER Doctors at Akron City Hospital Are “Out of Practice” and “Unprepared”
If you are in the midst of a medical emergency, you should go to the emergency room – but not the one at Akron City Hospital, according to nine Registered Nurses on the staff. In an interview with the Akron Beacon Journal, one on-staff RN said “I’m astonished by how much [the USACS physicians] don’t…
Read MoreH.R. 1215: Congressional Tort Reform Designed to Destroy Your Rights
We’ve spoken quite a bit about tort reform in the past, and the dangers it poses to victims of serious personal injuries and medical malpractice. We’ve fought it in the state legislatures in Ohio and Kentucky, when such bills came up, and we’ve fought it in the court of public opinion, too. Limiting a victim’s…
Read MoreThere Is No Excuse for How Walgreens Charges for Medication
At this point, it’s fairly common knowledge that medical procedures in hospitals are determined on a case-by-case basis. The hospital claims that this is because different agreements are worked out with different insurance companies, but in reality it is the best and most profitable system for the healthcare industry. The simple answer should be that…
Read MoreA Kentucky Hospital May be Spreading Deadly MRSA Infections through Steroid Epidurals
Kentucky does a lot of things well; keeping deadly infections from spreading throughout their hospitals is not, sadly, one of those things. There is a lot of documentation out there about the generally low scores that Kentucky hospitals, and Louisville hospitals in general, receive when it comes to preventing infections like MRSA (a staph infection…
Read MoreTranscript: Can medical providers falsify your records and get away with it?
Not when you hire Crandall & Pera Law. Not only are Marc Pera, and I former defense lawyers, who have literally looked through thousands of medical records once in defense of physicians, but Crandall & Pera Law also hires state-of-the-art forensic document and computer analysts who will look through your medical records, and catch any…
Read MoreAre Hospital Falls Considered Medical Malpractice?
When you are hospitalized for any reason, your healthcare facility has an obligation to make arrangements to protect you from any further harm. This includes considering the possibility that you may be unable to stand or walk on your own, especially following surgery or the administration of drugs. Whether hospital falls constitute malpractice is often…
Read MoreHospitals Are Killing Our Children
Alizabeth and Elvin Hana were devastated when their daughter was born with a brain injury in 2004. The birth injury was caused by severe oxygen deprivation, and the prognosis was not good. According to the Chicago Tribune, their daughter lived only three years because of the severe brain injury caused by the doctors at Rush…
Read MoreOxygen Deprivation as a Result of a Medical Error
Cerebral hypoxia takes place when the brain (and eventually the entire body) is not getting enough oxygen to stay alive. Hypoxic brain injury occurs when there is a decrease in the oxygen supply to the brain. This can be caused by many things such as a head injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, a rapid drop in…
Read MoreSuffering Woman Victim of Surgical Malpractice
In 2011, Rita Vasquez underwent cervical spine surgery at Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center in Chicago. The surgery was intended to relieve the severe pain that she was suffering as a result of a compressed disc. Instead, Vasquez sustained serious injuries including vascular injury, hemorrhage, nerve injury, and continued bodily pain. Vazquez filed…
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