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• In-home nurses get workers compensation benefits for car accidents

  Ric Davis | September 07, 2007 11:56 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Two nurses could collect workers compensation benefits for separate auto accidents that happened while they were driving to see housebound patients -- even though they weren't paid mileage for the trips, the Workers' Compensation Commission has ruled. Commissioners said the claims were compensable despite the going and coming rule because car travel was a necessary, essential and integral part...

• Allstate Insurance Company Driven by Greed

  Ric Davis | June 30, 2007 3:56 PM | 2 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Allstate Insurance Co.'s phenomenal growth in profits is directly tied to its drastic reduction in claims payments: The insurer offers paltry sums for legitimate claims, counting on its customers' unwillingness to slog through drawn-out litigation. That's no dark secret or allegation. It's a company policy called "Claims Core Process Redesign," devised by powerhouse corporate consultants...

• Insurance Company Settles Bad Faith Action Arising Out of Automobile Collision with Drunken Driver for $20 Million

  Harold Christian | July 10, 2007 4:29 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Joseph Tuski, a former construction worker, was left a quadriplegic, after being struck by a drunken driver and thrown more than 100 feet. In addition to bringing a lawsuit against the drunken driver, Mr. Tuski appropriately brought a lawsuit against the tavern that served alcohol to the drunk driver to such a point as to make him intoxicated even after he was obviously intoxicated. On January...

• Plastic Surgery Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Settled

  Harold Christian | May 29, 2007 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A woman who suffered from an infection after liposuction surgery has settled a medical malpractice lawsuit against the physician. Dr. Andrew Chontos performed the surgery on Julie Hays in 2003. This is the third malpractice suit settled against the former surgeon,The lawsuit says on Sept. 18, 2003, Chontos drained fluid from Julie Hays' abdomen. The fluid was infected, according to the suit.The...

• Blood Thinner Heparin Intentionally Contaminated ?

  Ric Davis | April 17, 2008 4:22 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Another glaring example of why the drug industry and President Bush will lobby for pre-emption is found in recent developments with regard to a Baxter International drug. On April 15, 2008, the FDA...

• Health Courts?

  Ric Davis | September 14, 2007 12:01 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  The following is an interesting article from Lawyers Weekly on Health Courts. Should medical malpractice claims be decided by an administrator in the medical profession? Should the injured patients' remedies be capped and limited in the interest of economic expediency? You decide............Doctors and tort reformers are pushing legislation in both houses of Congress to fund pilot projects...

• Medical Malpractice Crisis about the Operating Room and the Board Room, Not the Courtroom

  Ric Davis | June 27, 2007 6:05 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Study after study confirms that the medical malpractice "crisis" has its roots in the operating room, not the courtroom. A study released by HealthGrades, a consumer advocacy group that rates health care providers, found that an astonishing 1.2 million Medicare patients suffered "adverse safety incidents" in American hospitals over the two-year period, 2002-2004. Of those million-plus...

• Amendment/Retraction to Article Re Life Care Centers of America

  Matt Christian | August 14, 2007 3:53 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  In an earlier blog dated July 31, 2007, and titled "Nursing Home Charged Criminally for Abuse" the statement was made that Life Care Centers of America pled "guilty" to criminal charges. This was an inadvertant typographical error. Life Care Centers of America has pled "not guilty" to these charges. We apologize for any inconvenience or issues this error may have caused.For more information...

• Diabetes Drug Avandia Linked to Increased Risk of Heart Attack

  Harold Christian | July 09, 2007 1:42 PM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  A new study links the Type II Diabetes drug Avandia with a 43% increase in the risk of a heart attack, but the manufacturer of Avandia, Glaxo Smith Klein, continue to deny such claim and claim that such statements are "false and misleading". However, it appears that Avandia, much like Vioxx, was placed on the market without proper warnings for risk of harm to the patient, even though the...

• Maximum Weekly Workers Compensation Rate In South Carolina

  Ric Davis | April 22, 2008 8:20 AM | 0 CommentsGreenville, SC

  Maximum Weekly Workers Compensation Rate in SC