Monthly Archives: August 2020

IN THE NEWS: $4.9M AUTO ACCIDENT SETTLEMENT TEACHES MANY LESSONS
The mother of a young man killed in an auto accident in Brush Creek Township, Pennsylvania was just awarded a $4.9 million settlement. The accident illustrates several important points about auto accident personal injury which we believe are important for our Ramey & Hailey blog readers to understand…. Of the 5,000,000 (yes, millions!) car… Read More »

IN THE NEWS: DOUBLE-BOOKED DOCTORS CAUSE PERSONAL INJURY TO PATIENTS
When a single doctor is supervising surgery in two (even three?) different operating rooms (at the same time!) – that sounds like a recipe for personal injury lawsuit. Actually, overlapping surgery is a longstanding practice, JAMA Internal Medicine explains, for several very valid reasons: to improve hospital resource utilization to educate surgical trainees to… Read More »

IN THE NEWS: DOUBLE-BOOKED DOCTORS CAUSE PERSONAL INJURY TO PATIENTS
When a single doctor is supervising surgery in two (even three?) different operations rooms (at the same time!) – that sounds like a recipe for personal injury lawsuit. Actually, overlapping surgery is a longstanding practice, JAMA Internal Medicine explains, for several very valid reasons: to improve hospital resource utilization to educate surgical trainees to… Read More »