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Sociology Professor Reveals That It's Who You Kill That Matters
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationA defendant is much more likely to be sentenced to death if he or she kills a "high-status" victim, according to new research by Scott Phillips, associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver (DU)... ...
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Sun Mar 2010
Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Office Of Legal Counsel Nominee Johnsen For Second Time
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted 12-7 along party lines to approve the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to be assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, CQ Today reports. The committee had already approved Johnsen nearly one year ago, but her nominatio ...
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New Cases Of Genocide Often Denied After Holocaust
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationExperiences from the Holocaust led to the international community coming together and agreeing on the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Despite this, more cases of genocide occurred during the 20th century than during any other century... ...
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Violent Crime 'Race Gap' Narrows, But Persists In U.S.
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe U.S. 'race gap' in the commission of violent crime has narrowed substantially, yet persists - with murder arrest rates for African Americans still out-distancing those for whites - concludes a new 80-city study by the University of Maryland, Florida State University and the University of Oregon. ...
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Weighing Parents' Preferences And Risk Factors When Choosing Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) Or Plan A Repeat Cesarean
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationAn independent panel convened this week by the National Institutes of Health confronted a troubling fact that pregnant women currently have limited access to clinicians and facilities able and willing to offer a trial of labor after previous cesarean delivery because of so-called VBAC bans. Many, ev ...
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President Announces Plans To Crack Down On Health Care Fraud
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe Boston Globe: "President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system. ... Obama's anti-fraud announcement was aimed directly at the political ...
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Mind Calls For Regulation Of Counsellors And Psychotherapists, UK
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationMind today presents new evidence to illustrate the barriers people face when trying to make a complaint about counsellors and psychotherapists and urgently calls for independent statutory regulation to help protect clients from malpractice (1)... ...
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Cost Of Clinical Negligence Claims Rises Sharply, UK
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationAn analysis of clinical negligence claims costs made against doctors has shown an exceptionally sharp rise in the size of claims in England and Wales. The Medical Protection Society (MPS) - which handles medical negligence claims brought against GPs and private doctors - said the total value of rep ...
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Lawsuit Alleges Medtronic Illegally Marketed Stent Device For Unapproved Use
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationA complaint filed in federal court last week "alleges Medtronic Inc. illegally marketed a relatively obscure medical device called a biliary stent in ways not approved by federal regulators," The (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star Tribune reports. "The complaint was filed in U.S... ...
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NPR Broadcasts First Of Four Reports On College Rape, Sexual Assault
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / Litigation"Morning Edition" on Wednesday aired the first segment in a four-part series examining sexual assault and rape on U.S. college campuses. The series, which was produced in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, focuses on the "failure" of colleges and the Department of Education "to preven ...
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Trial For Lawsuit Against Anthem Blue Cross Begins In California
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe trial begins on a lawsuit targeting Anthem Blue Cross today in California. The insurer "refused to pay for" customer Ephram Nehme "to get a liver transplant in Indiana because the company wanted to save money, a lawyer for the patient told jurors Monday," the Los Angeles Times reports... ...
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Parental Notification Ballot Initiative Argued In Alaska Court
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationAttorneys appeared in Alaska state court Wednesday to argue for and against a ballot initiative that would require physicians to notify the parents of minors before abortion procedures, the Anchorage Daily News reports. Attorney Jeff Feldman filed a lawsuit against the initiative's supporters on beh ...
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Electronic Prescriptions Reduce Errors By Seven-Fold
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationShould doctors around the country use e-prescribing to decrease prescription errors? A study led by physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College found that health care providers using an electronic system to write prescriptions were seven times less likely to make errors than those writin ...
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Is The Person Exposing You To Radiation Qualified?
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationEvery day in the United States, tens of thousands of patients are exposed to ionizing radiation through radiation therapy, CT scans, x rays, mammograms, and other medical imaging and therapeutic procedures... ...
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APHA Urges Leaders To Move Forward On Health Reform
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationAs President Obama and congressional leaders meet for a health reform summit, the American Public Health Association urges them to move forward on comprehensive, affordable health reform with a focus on prevention and wellness. "We applaud leaders of both parties for meeting and urge them to find co ...
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State Roundup: S.C. Plan Would End Benefits To 30,000 Disabled Residents; Judge Bars Calif. From Cutting Elderly From Day Care; Mass. Faces Lawsuit
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationThe Associated Press/CNBC report about legislative action in South Carolina: "Children with autism, people with spine and brain injuries and the long-term disabled in job programs are among the 30,000 people who would lose state help under a $5.1 billion spending plan approved by a House committee ...
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Federal Officials Seek To Root Out Financial And Medicare Fraud
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationReuters: "The head of the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division told a gathering of criminal defense lawyers on Thursday that the division was using tools 'not often seen in white collar cases' to combat financial fraud," which includes Medicare... ...
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California Subpoenas Financial Records Of Seven Biggest Insurers
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / Litigation"The California state attorney general's office said Thursday that it had subpoenaed financial records of California's seven largest health insurance companies as part of an investigation into whether they illegally raised customer premiums and denied payment of legitimate claims," the Los Angeles ...
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California Consumer Group Sues Anthem Blue Cross For Changing Policies And Then Raising Rates
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationConsumer Watchdog and other plaintiffs are suing Anthem Blue Cross, the California insurer that recently told policyholders it would hike premiums by 39 percent, the Los Angeles Times reports... ...
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Obama To Release Revised Health Reform Proposal On Wednesday
Categorie : Medical Malpractice / LitigationPresident Obama on Wednesday is expected to present a revised version of his health reform proposal and lay out a strategy for Democrats to move forward on the initiative, CQ Today reports (Wayne, CQ Today, 3/1)... ...
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