On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Surgical Errors on Friday, August 26, 2016. Now that a highly respected study by medical researchers indicates that medical negligence is the third leading cause of death in the country, public awareness of the problem is hopefully growing. The crisis indicates an industry-wide scandal that the medical industry must work to reverse. Up until the release of those statistics, the medical and insurance industries had monopolized legislative influence in many states. The industry’s lobbyists had compelled state lawmakers in many states, including in Louisiana, to pass anti-consumer, restrictive laws limiting mercilessly what innocent medical victims or their families could collect in cases of serious......
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August 26th, 2016Common Symptoms of a Spinal Cord Injury – and What to Do about Them: Advice from a New Orleans Medical Malpractice Lawyer
August 22nd, 2016On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in spinal cord injury on Monday, August 22, 2016. Your spine is a precious, highly complicated mechanism. Imagine tall scaffolding structure, carefully and diligently supporting a tall, heavy building – and now imagine how flexible that support will need to be when the building begins to walk. Mayo Clinic defines a spinal cord injury as “damage to any part of the spinal cord or nerves at the end of the spinal canal.” The website warns that if you have recently experienced an injury to the spinal cord, it will feel as though every aspect of your life is negatively affected. National Spinal Cord Injury......
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August 15th, 2016On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Monday, August 15, 2016. Those who practice personal injury law in Louisiana know that the life of an elderly person is not worth as much in a wrongful death case as the life of a younger person with many more years left to work at the time of death. As society itself matures, however, it may learn that there are many non-monetary aspects of a person’s remaining life that may be recognized in an award for damages. There were recent reminders of that issue when the daughter of an elderly decedent sued a hospital for medical malpractice after her mother died......
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