New York Medical Malpractice

Advocates suggest a move to more comprehensive insurance coverage, including errors and omissions coverage, which is similar to medical malpractice insurance. Joyce M. Rosenberg of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette points out:
Mr. Drum is an advocate of companies buying as much insurance as they can, although he acknowledges that many owners don’t want to pay another [...]

Gardiner Harris in the New York Times specifically reports:
Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff members and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded.

The case against these corrupting practices is convincing:
Drug companies spend billions [...]

Having a legal advisor to help you through the complex legal maze can be an important for legal and economic reasons.. Find Law asks:
How a Medical Malpractice Attorney Can Help
After any situation that could potentially involve medical malpractice, you should speak with an experienced Medical Malpractice attorney who will evaluate your case with you, [...]

In a case of legal malpractice in a medical malpractice case, John Marzulli of the New York Daily News reports that:
A Great Neck lawyer is being sued for failing to file court papers in time to sue a urologist who allegedly botched a penile implant procedure.
The suit, filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, accuses Ira Podlofsky, [...]

This incident of medical malpractice as reported in the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe is quite egregious:
LOS ANGELES - Minutes after routine surgery for acute appendicitis in October 2003, Staff Sergeant Dean Witt, 25, was being moved to a recovery room at a northern California military hospital when he gasped and stopped breathing.
A [...]

Here’s an interesting story from Maine–it seems that a neurosurgeon with a serious malpractice claim pending in New York applied for and was given privileges to practice in Maine. The Injury Board reports:
The neurosurgeon was then found liable in a medical malpractice suit for a surgical procedure which left a man in a wheelchair prior [...]

One key risk area for medical malpractice is breast cancer.American Cancer Society suggests specific warning signs:
The most common sign of breast cancer is a new lump or mass. A painless, hard mass that has irregular edges is more likely to be cancerous, but some cancers are tender, soft, and rounded. For this reason, it is [...]

In corporate legal news according to Corporate Legal Times:
April 16, 2008
A New York judge has allowed a legal malpractice suit alleging faulty due diligence work by Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to proceed. Investor Ronald Katz hired the law firm to represent him in connection with a $3 million investment in a company called Humitech. [...]

According to Bloomberg and the Journal of the American Medical Association:
April 16 (Bloomberg) — Merck & Co. conducted its own studies on the pain pill Vioxx, then hired companies to ghostwrite reports for medical journals that appeared under the names of scientists who didn’t do the majority of the research, court records show.
In many cases, [...]

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are harmed every year by medication errors made at the hospital, but it’s not just adults who face the brunt of the problem. A new study finds the issue is widespread among children.
The number is alarming: one out of every 15 children is the victim of a medication mix-up at [...]