On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Thursday, September 8, 2016. The great majority of medical procedures are successful, though there are no guarantees. In some cases, poor results may occur even if the medical staff fully observed applicable standards of care. However, sometimes, medical malpractice lawsuits in Louisiana and other states follow adverse complications that resulted from doctors’ improper handling of procedures. In a recent lawsuit, a woman who will be 70 years old next year alleged negligence by a doctor in another state. The treatment complained of occurred when she was 62 years old. The medical malpractice complaint states that she suffered chronic pain from......
read moreBlog
Woman with needle in her back wins medical malpractice lawsuit
September 8th, 2016How Do You Know If Your Child Has Cerebral Palsy? 3 FAQs Answered by a New Orleans Birth Injury Attorney
August 29th, 2016On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation on Monday, August 29, 2016. Cerebral palsy is a neurological condition that affects muscular coordination and balance. It is usually the result of a traumatic pregnancy or birth injury. According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cerebral palsy is the number-one motor disability in the United States. Every year, 10,000 babies are born with the condition. That’s 1 in 323 children. More than 40 percent of those kids have co-occurring epilepsy, and most have a developmental brain abnormality. The CDC has also estimated that caring for a child with cerebral palsy over his or her lifetime could cost up to......
read moreMedical malpractice occurs when diagnostic protocols are ignored
August 27th, 2016On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Saturday, August 27, 2016. The failure to diagnose correctly is a major cause of injury and death in Louisiana to unsuspecting patients who have placed their trust in a physician’s hands. Physicians and other medical providers are held to a minimum standard of competency in treating a patient. Medical malpractice results when the doctor fails to follow the indicated protocol that a competent examination of the patient would require. From the initial intake to the physical examination, the doctor must observe the symptoms and then make certain accepted conclusions from those observations. Thus, certain findings are made during the physical......
read more
