A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that 20% of women report experiencing medical mistreatment from their healthcare providers during maternity care. As our West Palm Beach medical malpractice lawyers can explain, it is the job of fetal and obstetrical medical professionals to do…
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How Privatization Leads to More Florida Medical Malpractice Problems
Privatization of the medical industry – from nursing homes to hospitals to home health care companies to primary care doctors – is increasingly becoming the norm. Recently, a new study showed that adverse medical outcomes are more likely in privatized healthcare facilities. This is unsurprising to any Palm Beach medical…
Surgeon Faces Hundreds of Florida Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
A surgeon and the hospital where he worked are facing hundreds of Florida medical malpractice lawsuits alleging life-altering injuries to patients, who allege the doctor’s 2020 retirement due to a progressive neurological disorder came about four years too late. By then, complaints of the doctor’s shaking hands, slurring speech, unsteady…
Florida Medical Malpractice Laws Fail Adult Children, Their Parents
As longtime South Florida medical malpractice attorneys, one of the most heartbreaking things over the years has been telling parents of adult patients – and adult children of unmarried patients – that they have no legal recourse after their loved one has died due to medical negligence. That’s because the…
Explaining Florida’s Three Strikes Rule for Medical Malpractice
As experienced Palm Beach medical malpractice lawyers, we’re closely familiar with the 2004 Florida law passed overwhelmingly by voters with the intention of preventing dangerous doctors from practicing medicine. It’s a “three strikes” rule for medical malpractice that seems fairly straightforward: A doctor with three “strikes” of medical malpractice will…
Report: Hundreds of Florida Doctors Still Practice Despite Numerous Medical Malpractice Payouts
Doctors who have paid out numerous Florida medical malpractice claims continue to practice, despite a state statute approved by voters more than a decade ago intended to strip such physicians of their medical licenses. That’s according to a recent investigation into state insurance records by a South Florida television news…
Florida Supreme Court Sides With Plaintiff in Med-Mal Lawsuit
The Florida Supreme Court recently sided plaintiffs in a dispute regarding witness testimony in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a young child forced to undergo a kidney transplant due to alleged failure to diagnose a chronic illness by her primary care doctor. In the case of Gutierrez v. Vargas, plaintiff…