Recent Posts in 2015
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Communication about medical errors and medical malpractice litigation, P.2
In our last post, we mentioned recent research from ProPublica showing that failure to communicate about medical errors is a common occurrence, despite …
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Communication about medical errors and medical malpractice litigation, P.1
Communication is an essential ingredient when it comes to effective medical care and patient satisfaction. The reasons for this should make sense to …
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Who is responsible for ensuring safe transfer of oversize/overweight truck loads? P.2
Weâve been looking in our last couple posts at the issues of cargo securement and oversize load transportation. As weâve pointed out, there …
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Looking at the issue of cargo securement in the trucking industry
Truck accidents can occur for all sorts of reasons, and commercial vehicle drivers and their employers have a duty to see to it …
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Who is responsible for ensuring safe transfer of oversize/overweight truck loads? P.1
Last time, we looked a bit at some of the basic principles of cargo securement by which commercial vehicle drivers and their employers …
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What is the importance of non-economic damages in med mal cases? P.2
In our previous post, we began speaking about non-economic damages in the context of medical malpractice litigation. Last time, we spoke about situations …
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What is the importance of non-economic damages in med mal cases? P.1
In our last post, we mentioned a case which has been appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court involving the issue of whether a …
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Appeal involves issue of noneconomic damages in wrongful death med mal cases
Noneconomic damages can be a very important aspect of medical malpractice litigation, particularly in cases where economic damages areâfor whatever reasonânot adequate to …
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Proposal to increase trucking weight limit struck down in House
When it comes to improving highway safety, no stone should be left unturned. One particularly important stone is trucking safety, and federal regulators, …
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Causation an important issue in medical malpractice litigation
In our last post, we began speaking about a medical malpractice case in which the family of a man who died of cancer …