What is Going on with DePuy ASR Hip Replacement Litigation?

I’ve been reading reports by various bloggers, Bloomberg News, and the National Law Journal that Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Orthopaedic’s parent company, is considering whether to agree to pay $3 billion to settle more than 10,000 cases filed concering its defective metal-on-metal ASR hip replacement device.  The implication is that the MDL plaintiffs’ steering committee and/or other plaintiff lawyers who […]

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Malpractice payments not responsible for increasing medical costs

  A recent report by the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen exposes the falsity of the oft cited myth that medical malpractice payments and defensive medicine are principal factors behind out of control healthcare costs.  The report is based on data released by the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), a federal “confidential information clearinghouse” that […]

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Common Causes of Primary Care Malpractice Reviewed – Lawyers, Broken System Blamed

  A recent article published in BMJ Open assessed the epidemiology of (meaning the causes and characteristics of and patterns involved in) medical malpractice cases asserted against primary care physicians, primarily family practice doctors and internists.  The authors reviewed over 7,000 medical articles for data related to trends in malpractice cases against PCPs worldwide (although […]

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Large Estate May Pass to New York State

“He was a very smart man but he died like an idiot,” is the frank and harsh assessment made by Paul Skurka concerning his friend and fellow Holocaust survivor, Roman Blum, who died last year at the age of 97 without a will. Blum had no kn…

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