April 2007 Archives

Found 4/13/07 on the front page of the website for The National Law Journal, a link to an article titled:

How to make your family vacation more productive

With spring around the corner, it's time to pack the kids in the car for a family roadtrip. But don't let that stop you from keeping the clock running on your billable hours.

The above lead links to an article explaining how lawyers can pack in billable hours while touring with the family- does this suggest a loss of balance - or maybe sheer looniness- for those firms obsessed with billable hours?

Juries still side with doctors in about half of medical malpractice cases where strong evidence of negligence is presented. This is old news to those of us who handle medical malpractice claims on behalf of patients, but now it is “official” according to a new review of 30 years of medical malpractice jury verdicts.

After a five-week trial, in King County, Washington, jury on last Friday awarded $14 million to a 27-year-old skier who was paralyzed after dropping 37 feet from a ski jump at the Summit at Snoqualmie.

U.S. hospitals increased the number of “patient safety incidents” by three percent overall from 2003 to 2005, and where you seek treatment may make a huge difference in the outcome. The error gap between the nation's best- and worst-performing hospitals remained wide, a report released Monday found. America's top rated treatment centers had 40 percent lower rates of medical errors than the poorest-performing hospitals, the study showed.