Medical Crime A nightmare of criminal fraud: a doctor pumping poisonous chemotherapy drugs into hundreds of patients for years, falsely telling them they had cancer when they did not. The same doctor intentionally over-treated terminal cancer denying them the right to die peacefully. On July 10, 2015, nearly two years after arrest, a federal...
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A year ago, in June 2014, comedians Tracy Morgan and James ”Jimmy Mack” McNair suffered catastrophic crash injuries riding as passengers in a limo bus. The limo flipped over when a Walmart semi truck rear-ended the limo on the New Jersey Turnpike. McNair died at the scene, and medical responders airlifted Morgan and two...
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The Michigan legislature, under claims of “tort reform,” has in the last 20 years enacted statutory barriers to justice for patients injured or killed by medical malpractice. Legal barriers include requirements denying or delaying an injured patient access to the courthouse and baselessly-low ceilings (called “caps”) on recoverable damages. Even when an injured patient...
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Six (6) babies of every 1,000 births in the United States suffer a birth injury or birth trauma. In 2014, for instance, over 23,700 babies were injured at birth in this country. Some injuries resolved quickly or were easily treated, while others were very serious causing function problems of the brain, muscles, spinal cord,...
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For a patient injured by medical malpractice, Michigan law allows the person to get back only one type of loss suffered: compensatory damages. Only actual losses can be reimbursed. In contrast to other states such as New Mexico, where in 1992 scalding-hot McDonald’s coffee disfigured 79-year-old Stella Liebeck, Michigan denies a jury the power...
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