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On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Thursday, October 16, 2014. There are many possible reasons why certain diseases capture the country’s attention, whether it is the West Nile virus, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or the disease that is currently dominating national headlines: the Ebola virus. Each of these diseases contains elements that warrant close attention, including the serious consequences to those affected by the disease, the absence of answers as to its source, how it is transmitted from person to person and most worrisome of all the perception that there may be no certain treatment or cure. Many pharmaceutical and medical research companies are feverishly working......

On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Monday, October 6, 2014. Most of the time we think of medical malpractice incidents, our impression is that they take place in a hospital, doctor’s office, or other formal health care locations. But acts of negligence that may constitute medical malpractice can occur outside of health care institutions, and may not even need to involve people whose careers are directly connected to the health care profession. An ongoing media investigation in Louisiana suggests that multiple medically related deaths, and lawsuits arising out of those deaths, have taken place at the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office. The investigation looks at five instances of......

On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Thursday, October 2, 2014. One of the positive aspects of Louisiana’s enactment of a body of statutory law governing medical malpractice claims is that it establishes a degree of regularity to the initiation, negotiation, settlement and if need be litigation of patients’ claims against health care providers and institutions. At the same time, though, the statutory framework for medical malpractice claims can unintentionally create pitfalls for unwary claimants: the same specific requirements that create regularity and certainty can also result in the claim being inadvertently sabotaged if those requirements are not met. For example, rather than being able to immediately file......