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Case never should have gone to trial, lawyer says
Healthcare Risk Management;7/1/2012, p75
In the article Herbert S. Subin, partner with the law firm of Subin Associates in New York City, comments on a court case where the plaintiff was awarded $78.5 million, stating that letting the case go to the jury was a mistake for the Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Philadelphia and discusses how the hospital could have gotten away with paying less.
Alleged Failure to Recognize and Restrain Patient that Presented Elopement Risk Leads to $900,000 Settlement. Bachman, Radha V.; Porto, Grena // Healthcare Risk Management;Dec2010 Supplement 3, p1
The article discusses a court case wherein the plaintiff filed a case against the hospital, where his mother was admitted, due to failure to recognize and restrain patient from eloping which caused the patient's death.
Hospital's image with public will suffer. // Healthcare Risk Management;7/1/2012, p76
In the article Scott Sobel, president of Media & Communications Strategies in Washington, DC, highlights the need for internal and external communications to be done by Pottstown Memorial Medical Center in Philadelphia to mitigate the risks related to their reputation due to the $78.5 million...
RI fines hospital for alleged errors. // Healthcare Risk Management;Dec2010, Vol. 32 Issue 12, p142
The article reports on the 300,000 U.S. dollars worth of fine given by the Rhode Island Department of Health to the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence due to alleged surgical errors in 2010.
Present data the way C-suite wants it. // Healthcare Risk Management;Oct2010, Vol. 32 Issue 10, p116
An Examination of Negligence, Assumption of Risk, and Risk Management in Outdoor Recreation. Teague, Travis L. // Association of Outdoor Recreation & Education Conference Proceed;1995 Proceedings, p25
Negligence litigation is an ever present concern of the outdoor recreation provider. This paper examines the elements of negligence, including the presence of duty, breach of duty, proximate cause, and actual damage. The use of assumption of risk as a legal defense and the components of a risk...
Failure to admit diabetic patient leads to brain damage, $21.4M verdict. Rubin, Jonathan D.; Turiano, Christine A.; Reding, Barbara K. // Healthcare Risk Management;Jun2012 Supplement, p1
The article discusses a court case wherein a 50 year old diabetic man, transported to the emergency department (ED) twice within 48 hours for hypoglycemia, had developed severe hypoglycemia after a second hospital discharge and suffered a permanent brain damage. The plaintiff filed lawsuit...
Health system to pay $9.3 million for alleged False Claims Act, Stark violations. Becker, Scott; Timberlake, Lindzi M. // Healthcare Risk Management;Jan2013, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p7
The article discusses the confirmation by 'Freeman Health System', a healthcare provider and hospital system, Joplin, Missouri to pay $9.3 million to resolve accusation that violated the Stark Law and the False Claims Act by knowingly providing incentive pay to physicians and violating federal...
Over $4.6 million award for failure to maintain adequate blood supply resulting in death of mother. // Healthcare Risk Management;Jan2013, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p3
The article discusses a court case of a 36-year-old woman who died at the caesarean section delivery of her first child due to inadequate blood supply for transfusion. Plaintiff informed that the hospital did have blood available for transfusion, but failed to use it. The jury placed 100% of the...
Hospital system pays $9.3 million to settle False Claims Act and Stark Law violations. // Healthcare Risk Management;May2013 Supplement, p3
The article reports that a multi-hospital healthcare system agreed to pay 9.3 million dollar to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and Stark Law. It states that to protect the integrity of the government-funded health care benefit programs, the False Claims Act and Stark...