Safety Tips to Prevent Summer Sports Injuries
According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), every year, nearly 2 million people suffer injuries caused by sports activities and seek treatment in hospital emergency departments across the United States. The cost of these treatments can range from $2,294 for a sprain to $7,666 for a fractured arm. According to the American […]
Medical Assistant Practice Liability
In 2014, the total amount in medical malpractice payouts in the United States was $3,891,743,050. 40% of these payouts were in outpatient incidents while 46% were for inpatient cases. The total payment percentage by gender was 53% ($2,076,790,450) for female patients and 45% ($1,752,854,350) for male patients.
Filing a Dental Malpractice Lawsuit
Thousands of people in the United States are affected by dental malpractice each year. According to the American Board of Legal Medicine, 13.1% of all claims for professional malpractice are filed against dentists. Other statistics show that in any one year, 1.6% of dentists will face a civil malpractice lawsuit. Some of the top negligence categories include:
Configuration errors causes computer crash during surgery
New York patients who are scheduled to have a surgery that uses computers to assist in the procedure may be interested to learn that in February, a patient’s heart surgery was stopped for five minutes when a computer began doing an automatic virus check. Although the patient, who was sedated at the time, was not harmed, the incident does highlight the vulnerability of such systems to errors that could potentially be life-threatening.
Symptoms and Dangers of Concussions and Brain Injuries
According to the CDC, traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is one of the major causes of death in the United States, contributing to approximately 30% of all deaths caused by injury. 138 people in the country die every day from injuries including TBI. In 2010, TBI resulted in about 25 million emergency department visits, hospitalizations, […]
How to Prevent Injury in Commercial Fishing
Commercial fishing is one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States. The fatality rate in this industry is 39 times higher than the national average. Man overboard fatalities are the second leading cause of death among workers in professional fishing nationwide. Between 2000 and 2014, 210 fishermen died after falling overboard from their […]
Important Steps to Take before Filing a Personal Injury Lawsuit Against an Amusement Park
According to the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA), 300 million people visit the nearly 400 amusement parks in the United States every year. In an analysis of amusement rides at parks and carnivals by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an estimated 37,154 people were treated in hospital emergency rooms for serious amusement […]
Prevent Medical Misdiagnosis
According to studies, diagnostic errors occurred in approximately 5% of outpatients every year in the United States, meaning that roughly 12 million adults are victims of misdiagnosis. A small fraction of this 5% is made up of missed cancers, but it is found that “delayed cancer diagnosis” is one of the most harmful and costly types of diagnostic errors.
How to Calculate Damages in Medical Malpractice
In 2013, the total payout in medical malpractice was $3,733,678,100, which was an increase of 4.7% from 2012. 38 states had more payout than they did in 2012.
Blood Transfusion Errors and Medical Malpractice
During the fiscal year 2008, 54 reported transfusion-related and potentially transfusion-related fatalities occurred in the United States, with subsequent reports of 66 in 2009 and 64 in 2010. Preventable medical errors rank third among the leading causes of death in the nation, claiming more than 400,000 lives each year. These errors cost the country tens of billions of dollars a year.
