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Monthly Archives: August 2011
August 24, 2011
Driverless Cars (Redux)
I am preparing for a trial and swore I wouldn’t have time for anything as frivolous as a blog post until trial is over, but when I learned that Abnormal Use, the defense side legal blog that is the darling of The New York Times, National Public Radio and Jackie Childs (I’m in too much [...]
August 22, 2011
Legal Blog Roundup
Sorry for the light posting lately. It’s the summer news doldrums and I am gearing up for a trial. At any rate, herewith the latest from the legal blogosphere: Back in June, I blogged about how missed medications cost us $250 billion a year, dwarfing the cost of medical malpractice. If we could only get [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
August 15, 2011
A New “Hotspot” Video
We’ve blogged before about so-called “medical hot spotting.” The technique promises to bring down the costs of health care dramatically by concentrating health care resources in the right places, much like, in the mid-1990s, police began to bring down crime rates by concentrating police patrols in the right areas. Now PBS’ Frontline has done a [...]
Posted in Medical Malpractice
August 12, 2011
Link Roundup
Hundreds of doctors who have been disciplined by their own hospitals or insurance companies have escaped discipline by the board of medicine in California, according to this Los Angeles Times expose. The personnel at the board of medicine blame budget cuts for their inability to keep up with doctor misconduct. The Freakonomics blog features a [...]
Posted in Car Accident, Car Crash, Medical Malpractice
August 7, 2011
World’s First Driverless Car Accident Requires Rethinking Of Rules Of Legal Liability
Today came news that a prototype robot-driven car, developed by Google, was at fault in a car accident near Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters. Google’s engineers, for their part, claim that a human driver who overrode the robotic autopilot was at fault in the accident, rather than the software that normally drives the vehicle. Robotically-driven [...]
Posted in Car Accident, Car Crash
August 4, 2011
Kaiser Health Sues Hospital Chain For Padding Bills
Kaiser Health, one of the largest health insurance companies in the nation, is suing Prime Health Services, Inc., for taking Emergency Room patients and unnecessarily having them stay for extended periods of times on an in-patient basis, as part of an alleged scheme to drive up the price tag of the hospital visits. Patients who [...]
Posted in Medical Malpractice
August 2, 2011
Law Blog Roundup
This is one that I wish I had time to blog about. The Atlantic‘s Andrew Cohen wrote an article about a train crash in California that killed twenty-four people and seriously injured a hundred more. In 1997, Congress passed a law called the Amtrak Reform and Accountability Act that capped damages in train crashes at [...]
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