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- Most Common Types Of Medical Malpractice Which Cause Spinal Cord Injuries
- Common Medical Mistakes Leading to Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries
- Root Causes of Medical Malpractice Leading to Brain Injuries or Spinal Cord Injuries
- Hyponatremia Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
- How Are Malpractice Settlements Calculated?
- Medical Malpractice Mediations
- How Long Does It Take A Lawyer To Decide Whether To Take Your Malpractice Case
- Delayed Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer
- How Hard is it to Sue a Doctor or Hospital?
- How Long Does A Medical Malpractice Suit Take To Settle?
- Will Your Law Firm Take My Medical Malpractice Case?
- Evaluating A Potential Medical Malpractice Case Involving A Heart Attack
- Not Our Employee, Not Our Problem
- Compartment Syndrome
- Meyers Evans Lupetin & Unatin Becomes Lupetin & Unatin July 1, 2021
- Pediatric Medication Errors
- Should Your Doctor Have Performed a C-Section?
- Verdict Delivered Along With $10.83 Million Award In Blair County Medical Malpractice Case
- Attorneys Of Lupetin & Unatin, LLC Included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers In America©
- When Is A Surgical Error Considered Medical Malpractice?
- 5 Ways a Medical Visit can Become a Medical Malpractice Suit
- Do You Have a Medical Malpractice Claim?
- Will Your Hospital Admit a Medical Mistake?
- National Survey Shows Some Pittsburgh Area Hospitals are Safer than Others
- Radiology Mistakes & Medical Malpractice
- Pennsylvania Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Malpractice Claims – What You Need to Know
- The 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule – A New Phase of Patient Centered Health IT
- Aortic Dissection In Patients With Chest Pain And Ischemic Electrocardiograms
- The Importance Of Recognizing Atypical Presentations Of Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Insurance Bad Faith – Punitive Damages
- Negotiating Bad Faith and Insurance Coverage Claims
- Medical Malpractice: Who Can Request An Autopsy?
- New Bill Approved By Congress That Allows Active Duty Military Members To Sue For Medical Malpractice
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Declares Pennsylvania’s Seven Year Limit On Medical Malpractice Cases Unconstitutional
- US News – Best Lawyers®: 2020 “Best Law Firms”
- Multiple Studies Show The Benefits of HPV Vaccination Over the Past Five Years
- Attorney Jerry Meyers Named “Lawyer of the Year” in Best Lawyers
- 6 Steps to Take After You’ve Been In A Car Accident
- What Damages are Available for Medical Malpractice?
- Neil Armstrong Died of Medical Malpractice, Family Settled for $6M
- The Three Most Important Things to Do Right After a Slip or Trip and Fall
- The 3 Most Important Things to Do in the Days and Weeks After a Slip or Trip and Fall
- Proving Medical Malpractice
- Is an Autopsy Important for my Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Case?
- Delayed Diagnosis of Spinal Infection
- Will a Doctor or Hospital Alter My Medical Records?
- You Have Decided to Structure Your Settlement – What Happens Next?
- The Eight Most Common Types of Medical Malpractice
- Identifying Medical Malpractice Under Pennsylvania Law
- Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Filed In Federal Court In Wrongful Death Case
- We Know It Can Be Difficult To Contact An Attorney
- The Importance Of Our Rights To A Jury Trial
- Patients Treated At UPMC Jameson May Have Been Exposed To Improperly Cleaned Ultrasound Probes
- ASTM e2147 Revised For 2018
- Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against UPMC In Pittsburgh Tuberculosis Case
- The Real Cost of a Pedicure: Hidden Dangers Lurking in Nail Salons
- Eight Steps To Avoid Cervical Cancer (Updated)
- New Recommendations to Monitor Coffee Roasters for Potential Lung Disease
- Contaminated Water At Summit Elementary School
- Lawsuits Filed In Cases of Death in Mold Outbreak at UPMC Hospitals
- Misplaced NG Tubes Pose Serious Threat to Patient Wellbeing
- Docusate Recall – Children’s Laxative Contaminated WIth Burkholderia Cepacia
- Prevention of Pulmonary Embolism
- Failure to Prevent, Diagnose, or Treat Pulmonary Embolism
- Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism
- Olympus Kept U.S. Hospitals in the Dark About the Risk of Infection from Endoscopes
- Electronic Medical Records Can Provide Early Warning of Sepsis for Those at Highest Risk
- Failure to Diagnose
- Failure to Monitor
- Failure to Rescue from Cardiac or Respiratory Arrest
- The Duty to Monitor for Cardiac or Respiratory Arrest
- Doctors and Nurses Must Look for Signs of Problems and Prevent Harm to Patients
- Delayed Diagnosis of Compartment Syndrome
- A World Free Of Polio – Not Yet
- New Recommendations To Help Doctors Diagnose Sepsis and Septic Shock Earlier, Saving Lives
- Retained Surgical Items Often the Result of Medical Malpractice
- New Guidelines Reinforce Established Rights to Access Medical Records
- Patient Suffered Permanent Nerve Damage Due To Botched Saphenous Vein Harvest
- Central Line Infections – Still Rampant, but Preventable
- Pennsylvania’s Act 47 Law
- American Cancer Society Releases New 2015 Guidelines For Breast Cancer Screening In Women At Average Risk
- Maternal Deaths Due To Sepsis
- Three UPMC Patients Died From Fungal Infections Following Transplant Surgery
- Negligent Resuscitation of a Newborn
- Alert: Pulse Oximetry Screening Fails To Detect 24% Of Newborn Heart Defects
- Pittsburgh Dentist Uses Paper Clips for Pittsburgh Patients Root Canals
- Infections in the Newborn
- Delayed Diagnosis of Newborn Heart Defects – Murmurs Matter
- Failure to Diagnose or Treat Preeclampsia
- Tenth Circuit Goes Out of Its Way to Squash Six-Year-Old Girl’s Birth Injury Claims
- Failure to use Dental Dam During Root Canal Equals Malpractice
- Obstetrical Negligence: The Importance Of Monitoring The Fetus During Labor
- SAGES Approach to Minimizing Injury During Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
- Superbug Reaches Pittsburgh Hospital
- Pittsburgh Actos Bladder Cancer Lawsuits May Soon Settle
- Giving Patients Open Access to Medical Records is Transformative
- Severe Maternal Morbidity and Death
- FDA Recklessly Approves DNA Test as a Substitute For PAP Smear
- CDC Promotes HPV Vaccination to Fight Cancer
- Is Medicine Up To Date?
- Statute of Limitations for Pennsylvania Wrongful Death and Survival Actions
- Attorneys Obtain $6 Million Verdict in Negligent Misrepresentation Case Against Intertek
- Nursing Home Litigation
- Evaluation of Anesthesia Case: Failure to Maintain a Patent Airway
- Evaluation of an Anoxic Brain Injury Case
- Understanding the Tumor Doubling Defense
- Cervical Cancer Misdiagnosis
- Breast Cancer Malpractice Cases
- You Cannot Consent To Injury
- Reader Question: Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma & Infertility
- The Legal Battle Over Genetic Testing For Breast Cancer
- Breast Cancer Screening and Mammography
- Attention Shifts to Epidural Abscess for Victims of Meningitis Outbreak
- Latest On CDC’s Investigation Into The Meningitis Outbreak Linked To Contaminated Steroid Injections
- More Insult to Injury for the Victims of the Meningitis Outbreak
- Fighting a Double Standard for Access to Electronic Medical Records
- PA Act 17 May Hurt Businesses
- NEJM Makes No Sense Of New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines
- Pa. Patient Safety Authority Claims They Can’t Enforce Reporting Requirements
- Jerry Meyers Named In “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” In Pennsylvania
- Kyle’s Campaign for Justice Lost
- Kyle Hoff’s Campaign for Justice
- Disclosing Medical Error – The Right Thing To Do
- Tort Reform – The Fox In The Hen House
- Delay in Herpes Diagnosis Leads to Disaster in a Newborn Infant
- Doctors Confess Their Fatal Mistakes
- What Can Go Wrong, Sometimes Does
- Incidentaloma can make healthy people ill-especially if ignored!
- Echocardiogram Bait and Switch
- Medical Malpractice – A Bogie?
- Medicine Is An Art, Not A Science. Or Is It?
- Occult Findings Not Incidentalomas
- Why Can’t Doctors Say They Are Sorry?
- See No Evil – Speak No Evil
- The Pap Smear – Not Too Many – Too Few
- Gardasil, a Good Idea?
- A Patient Should Have a Right to Legal Advocacy
- Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
- If Mothers only Knew- Revisited
- Hospital Conceals Airway Accident Resulting in Brain Damage of Child
- Healthcare: Crisis in Quality-Not Cost
- Nurses Face Felony Charges for Reporting Malpractice
- Defensive Medicine is Bad Medicine
- If Mothers Only Knew
- The Electronic Medical Record-Better Medicine?
- Patients Not Informed of Clinically Significant Outpatient Test Results
- Premature Infant Left For Dead
- Malpractice Lawyers Make A Difference On Patient’s Safety
- Study In Rural India Has Positive Implications
- Cancer Misdiagnosed in 12% of Cases: Study by Alan Mozes
- The Effect Of Creating And Using A Safety Checklist
- Women Beware
- MGUS & Multiple Myeloma
- Failure to Understand Allergy Leads to Woman’s Death
- Death Due To Anesthesia
- The Negligent Interpretation Of Pap Smears
- Hospital Acquired Infections
- The Pap Smear Case
- Pennsylvania Physician Assistant Loses Certification Due To Salt Overdose
- Hepatitis Survivor Lucky To Be Alive
- Pennsylvania Hepatitis-A Victims’ Attorneys Ask Bankruptcy Court To Lift Stay
- Chi-Chi’s Lawsuits Withdrawn
- U.S. Inspectors Checking Onion Farms In Mexico
- Parental Questions Didn’t Halt Fatal Salt Overdose
- Lawsuit Filed Against Chi Chi’s On Behalf Of Hepatitis-A Victims
- Lessons Hard To Learn If State Requires Secrecy In Medical Malpractice Cases
- Eight Steps To Avoid Cervical Cancer
- Rx For Doctors Better Bedside Manner Eases Malpractice Suits
- Deadly Hospital Mistakes Are Doomed To Be Repeated
- Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and Increased Risk of Bile Duct Injury
- Karen Tirimacco, Quadriplegic Awarded $1.15 Million
- Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums Soar
- Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law
- Vaccine Against Cervical Cancer Approved
- Botched Delivery Results in Largest-Ever Blair County Verdict
- Lawyers: Verdict’s Just Right
- Jury Awards $4 Million to 10-year-old Boy in Medical Negligence Case
- Evaluation of a Birth Injury Case (Part 2)
- Evaluation of a Birth Injury Case (Part 1)
