Our Blog - Medical Malpractice

In Flatbush, Brooklyn, hospital workers exposed newborn premature babies to extensive and repeated unnecessary radiation, according to a New York Times exposé published today. As is often the case, a state investigation into the alleged activity at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center was prompted not by self-reporting by the hospital but by the investigate efforts of the press.

In order to practice law, attorneys are required to participate in Continuing Legal Education seminars to keep abreast of developments in their areas of practice. No such requirement exists, however, for radiologists responsible for operating dangerous...

Major media in the U.S. tend to frame medical malpractice “tort reform” as a battle between doctors and lawyers. There’s some truth to that - many doctors understandably support efforts to make themselves immune from wrongful death lawsuits and the like. But if you follow the money, the big funders and major financial beneficiaries of medical malpractice tort reform are not doctors but insurance companies.

In states where tort reform has been on the table, medical associations have argued that capping damages on malpractice lawsuits was necessary to lower malpractice liability insurance rates. Now, several years into these experiments, we’re learning that insurance rates have been largely unaffected by tort...