Austin Personal Injury Blog
The Nov. 1, 2007 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has an article encouraging federal legislation to require pharmaceutical and medical device companies with more than $100 million in revenue to disclose the amount of money and gifts they give to physicians. The bill, entitled the “Physician Payment Sunshine Act,” is “about letting…
Read MoreJay Harvey, an Austin personal injury lawyer and current president of the Texas Trial Lawyer’s Association, has a letter to the editor in today’s paper supporting the Pakistani lawyers who are standing up for the rule of law. There have been demonstrations all over the country in support of the lawyers, including demonstrations in New…
Read MoreSeveral states, including Texas, have special laws protecting emergency room physicians from medical malpractice litigation. These protections may include higher burden of proof on the plaintiff or a different standard of care (for example, providing only liability when there is gross negligence). Last week, the Torts Prof Blog outlined an interesting medical malpractice reform proposal being…
Read MoreWe’ve previously written about the problems of personal injury subrogation and ERISA subrogation. Now, a Minneapolis television station has run a story outlining the problems that a husband has encountered surrounding subrogation in the medical malpractice context. There are two things that are interesting about the story. First, it’s a good background on subgrogation. The…
Read MoreThere is a long line of politicians who vote for various tort reform measures only to need to turn to the tort system themselves. The latest is Florida Republican Stephen Wise, a strong supporter of reform of medical malpractice and nursing home litigation. According to the Florida Times Union: As a state representative and senator representing…
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