Medical Malpractice

• Study Shows Doctors Often Distort the Truth with Patients

  John Lowery | February 10, 2012 11:08 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  A study discussed in Friday's Tennessean shows that many physicians withhold the truth from patients to avoid being held accountable through a lawsuit: More than half admitted describing...

• Birds of a Feather: Why Tennessee Doctors Stick Together in Malpractice Cases

  John Lowery | January 22, 2012 11:24 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  In medical malpractice litigation we often see a phenomenon where doctors stick together and seem to defy logic in the way they swear under oath that sometimes deadly mistakes aren’t...

• Legislation Would Make Emergency Rooms Accountability Free

  John Lowery | April 12, 2011 4:41 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  Posted with permission from the Tennessee Association for Justice: Legislation Would Make Emergency Rooms Accountability-Free HB 174/SB 360 Would Eliminate Current Patient Protections in...

• Birth Injury Lawsuit Settled for $3 Million

  Rob McKinney | September 22, 2006 4:12 PM | 0 CommentsNashville, TN

  The parents of an infant who died during delivery will receive a $3 million wrongful death settlement. The lawsuit alleged that the delivering doctor crushed the baby's skull and caused liver damage while using forceps toassist with delivery.The boy was born at 4:20 a.m. Aug. 29. His mother had been admitted to the Plains Township hospital Aug. 28 at 10:15 a.m., according to the suit. The infant...