Today at 3:00 p.m., YOU CAN SPEAK TO DIANA LEVINE (WYETH v. LEVINE) ABOUT FEDERAL PREEMPTION. The program is being sponsored by FireDogLake.com . Anyone can go to the site, and click through to follow the conversation. In order…
Some things are worth travelling for: the soup dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai in New York’s Chinatown, for example. But according to Choe Sang-Hun in today’s NY Times , many Americans are joining the ranks of medical tourists , and heading to…
As the State of Illinois grapples with the tort reform movement, some of the arguments for and against legislated “caps” on damages in medical malpractice cases are receiving a new airing . At issue is whether it…
Let’s face it. American health care has a long way to go toward improving its quality and its availability. But things could be worse. According to today’s BBC NEWS , Sicilian physicians have been billing…
Did you know that as of the first week of October, 2008, Medicare no longer reimburses American hospitals when certain “reasonably preventable” events, known as “never events” (because they are never supposed to happen) actually…
If you were as repulsed as I was by the whitewash treatment received by former governor Elliot Spitzer by U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia, you will be pleased to learn that he will be leaving his…
I don’t usually stray far from my area of law. However, because I was a prosecutor in a former life, and because the Elliot Spitzer story just incenses me, I wrote in to The New…
Today, many of us are at work in the physical sense, but our minds are elsewhere. They are on the election for the next President of the United States. As we head into this hugely…
The Center for Justice and Democracy has issued a report that will resonate with American women, according to Kia Franklin , who discusses it today in Tort Deform . It is called “ THE BITTEREST…
Lest we forget that in modern medical care, nurses play larger roles in the delivery of babies, an Illinois nurse who ignored signs of fetal distress broadcast by a fetal monitor was slapped with an…
