On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Thursday, May 8, 2014. Families of the children who died from an outbreak of a fungal infection at the New Orleans Children’s Hospital in 2008 and 2009 may have found a way to seek compensation for the loss of their loved ones, despite being barred by Louisiana medical malpractice law from filing lawsuits. At issue are two restrictions Louisiana law imposes on potential medical malpractice claimants: A statute of limitations bars the filing of medical malpractice lawsuits related to improper medical care after three years; and The law limits medical malpractice awards to $500,000. It might seem that the three-year......
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Deadly fungal outbreak prompts changes to hospital reporting laws
May 1st, 2014On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Hospital Negligence on Thursday, May 1, 2014. Laws are meant to protect the public, but unfortunately, not all harm is preventable until it is too late. Sometimes a tragedy has to occur in order to incite the public to push for change. For example, the recent discovery that a fungal infection led to five deaths at a children’s hospital has spurred Louisiana legislators to re-evaluate state health laws. In 2008 and 2009, a total of five children became infected with a fungus while they were patients at a children’s hospital. Although allegedly aware of the connection between the fungus and the patients’ deaths,......
read moreSurgical error prompts woman to sue Louisiana doctor
April 25th, 2014On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Surgical Errors on Friday, April 25, 2014. Most residents of the state of Louisiana would prefer to do whatever they can to avoid having to undergo a surgical procedure. There are however times in which it is the only real possibility of a person’s medical condition improving. While there is of course a certain amount of risk involved with virtually any surgery, anyone who has an operation assumes that the health care providers involved in it will not engage in actions that might be deemed negligent. Unfortunately this does sometimes occur. A Louisiana woman, who recently filed a lawsuit against a doctor and......
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