On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Friday, October 2, 2015. A hospital in New Orleans has been sued following the death of an 80-year-old woman. The woman’s children on behalf of the deceased have filed the suit. The suit alleges that the victim had a history of behavioral problems as well as a variety of other medical diagnoses when admitted to the hospital in August 2012. Her mental problems included depression and dementia. When she began to suffer from sores and diarrhea, the victim was admitted to the hospital. After a nine-day stay, she was discharged at the end of August. However, her sores never completely healed......
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October 2nd, 2015Who should I sue in connection with my medical malpractice claim?
September 27th, 2015On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Sunday, September 27, 2015. Consider a scenario in which you were involved in a traffic accident that causes you injury which requires hospitalization. While you’re in the hospital, you suffer further harm as a result of an incident of medical malpractice. Under Louisiana law, who should you sue to recover money damages for the harm that you have suffered? It used to be that you could sue the driver of the other car for all of your damages, including those that you suffered while in the hospital because of the act of medical malpractice. Today, however, because of the way that......
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September 25th, 2015On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in spinal cord injury on Friday, September 25, 2015. As if the physical pain wasn’t enough, many medical malpractice injuries are expensive to treat. They can also be immediately debilitating, preventing victims from returning to work or completing day-to-day activities. A spinal cord injury is perhaps the most devastating of all medical malpractice injuries. The health-care expenses and rehabilitation bills from even a minor spinal injury can lead to insurmountable debt. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, recurring costs for patients with spinal cord injuries are often significant – to the extent that they are a burden on health-care systems across......
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