Recent Posts in Hospitals Category
Posted on Oct 18, 2011 By Phoenix Personal Injury Lawyer
The consumer protection group Public Citizen has just issued a report that confirms that tort reform benefits nobody but insurance companies. New Public Citizen Report: Texas’ Health Care System ...
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Posted on Mar 9, 2011 By Palumbo Wolfe
The following article was published in Washington Monthly , March/April 2011. It is a great piece regarding the need to do more to protect patient safety First Do No Harm Last year there wasn't a ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2011 By Anthony "Tony" Palumbo, Esq.
Palumbo Wolfe & Palumbo, PC founding partner, Tony Palumbo, was recently asked to speak to the physicians at the Western Surgical Association about medical negligence lawsuits. Mr. Palumbo took ...
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Posted on Jan 15, 2011 By Scott I. Palumbo, Esq.
Medical negligence lawsuits are few and far between, hardly contributing to health care costs. However, 98,000 patients are killed annually by preventable medical errors . That's like two 737s ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2010 By Scott I. Palumbo, Esq.
Some medical providers or facilities refuse to provide the medical records of a deceased person until there is proof that the person requesting the medical records has been appointed as the executor ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2010 By Scott I. Palumbo, Esq.
In some of our cases, we confront the situation where a doctor or hospital refuse to provide a patient with his or her medical records. When this situation arises, we write to the doctor or hospital ...
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