On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Brain Injuries on Friday, February 6, 2015. The human brain can be a study in contradictions: despite all of its power, it can also be quite fragile and susceptible to injury, especially traumatic injuries. It is this vulnerability to injury that can make recovery from a traumatic brain injury not only time-consuming, but it can also be extraordinarily expensive. The Louisiana legislature has recognized the difficulty that many state residents can have when it comes to affording long-term treatment for head and spinal cord injuries. Accordingly, the Department of Health & Hospitals through the Office of Aging and Adult Services has been tasked to......
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Can the Louisiana government help with brain injury costs?
February 6th, 2015Court reverses cruise ships’ immunity from medical malpractice
February 5th, 2015On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Thursday, February 5, 2015. Over the last several years cruise ships have been the target of negative publicity due to contagious illnesses that have run rampant onboard, causing returns to port and passenger refunds. But one avenue of redress that generally did not exist for passengers was the ability to sue the medical staff on the ship for any part their negligence might have played in the initial treatment of the illness or injury, or their inability to contain its spread among other passengers. In 1988, a court ruling gave cruise ship companies immunity for negligent medical care of their passengers.......
read moreHospital negligence often causes healthcare associated infections
February 5th, 2015On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Thursday, February 5, 2015. It is always a stressful situation when you or a loved one must seek medical treatment at a hospital or other medical care facility. But we go to these places because we believe in the everlasting hope that getting treatment there will help make us well again. But for thousands of people every year, that treatment ends up making a bad situation worse because they contract an infection unrelated to their initial problem. Health care associated infections are infections contracted by patients in health care facilities, such as hospitals, nursing homes and dialysis centers, while receiving treatment. This......
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