Reports from Our Medical & Medication Error Lawyers

On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Wednesday, August 3, 2016. Louisiana, like all states, has a number of statutes that define the time during which a person can bring a lawsuit. These are called statutes of limitation. In a medical malpractice case, the statute of limitations can often become an issue that the defense may raise to try and say that the plaintiff took too long to file the case. The purpose of these statutes should be obvious: the law needs to have closure. People cannot be haunted by the prospect of a legal claim for decades. In addition, pursuing a claim many years after the events......

On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Friday, July 29, 2016. One general thought in Louisiana or elsewhere says that when a patient goes to a doctor complaining of a seemingly minimal medical complaint and ends up dead shortly thereafter, a thorough investigation should be made to determine whether medical negligence played a role. The stark contrast between a standard medical problem and a disproportionately frightful result, is sometimes a tipoff for medical malpractice. That is apparently what happened in another state where a woman’s estate settled recently with the medical insurers for the sum of $4.9 million. The woman had at first gone to defendant doctors for......