Monthly Archives: October 2018

Is another workers’ comp conflict in the making? That’s the take by Dan Walters, one of the most senior and savvy journalists on the Sacramento scene. Walters has observed political wars over California workers’ comp going back decades. His most recent piece on workers’ comp predicts that as Governor, Gavin Newsom will be called upon [...]

Medical malpractice suits are on the rise, and leading the pack is cardiology. According to a recent insurance study, between 2006 and 2015, the number of cardiology claims against medical malpractice insurance increased 91 percent, and total liability paid grew 142 percent. A host of issues are at play, most notably improper treatment and diagnostic errors, and to [...]

But not all of it. When a woman claims she’s being harassed by a sex offender, and officers determine his actions violate his probation, and he is being investigated for new and ongoing criminal activity, and both the woman and her mother have contacted law enforcement seeking help, that seems like a time when criminal [...]

Over the years I’ve been amazed about the loosey goosey approach many attorneys have towards the QME process. Not sending medical records to the QME at all, sending too many medical records, sending medical records at the last minute, sending undisclosed sub rosa films, sending no cover letter with questions to be addressed, sending massive [...]

The University of Southern California (USC) has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit for $215 million. The suit was brought by current and former students after one of USC’s campus gynecologists, Dr. George Tyndall, was accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate language. There could be as many as 17,000 members of this federal class-action; Tyndall practiced gynecology [...]

Electric scooters are all the rage — some people really like them, and the rest of us are mad as hell. Some e-scooter companies have been banned from cities like San Francisco and Santa Cruz after their products have littered sidewalks, caused injuries, and been driven drunk. And a new class action lawsuit against two of the largest e-scooter companies, [...]

Any time there is an issue of negligence, a claim can be brought in court. If a nail technician fails to abide by their duty of care, and an infection results, a suit can definitely be filed. But the pain may not be worth the price. Suing Nail Salons for Negligence in State Court Nail [...]

Cesarean births, or C-sections, as they are commonly knows, are increasing at an alarming rate in the United States, up from 23 percent of all births in 2000 to 32 percent in 2015. To put these percentages in perspective, in 1985 the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that there was “no justification for any region to have [...]

Under Wisconsin’s administration of health insurance benefits,”[p]rocedures, services, and supplies related to surgery and sex hormones associated with gender reassignment” were excluded from coverage. But a federal judge recently ruled the exclusion violated antidiscrimination measures in the Affordable Care Act, and a jury just awarded two transgender women $780,000 after they were denied coverage for hormone therapy and [...]

When a hospital announces that one of its longest-serving obstetricians will require a chaperone when treating women in the maternity ward and has been removed from both hospital leadership and the list of doctors on call to deliver babies, you know something serious is going on. A week after the Los Angeles Times reported Dr. [...]