On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Monday, April 23, 2018. There are freestanding emergency rooms all across the country. Many Louisiana residents may have visited one rather than driving to a full hospital. One family took their daughter to one of these freestanding clinics for treatment of a cut she received while swimming in a lake. However, after numerous problems and more than $100,000 in additional medical costs, the family filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the emergency room, which unexpectedly closed a few months after their visit. The young girl had apparently jumped off of a pier and into a lake where she landed on an......
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April 17th, 2018By Zach Christiansen of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Birth Injuries on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. Over the past few decades, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of Caesarean section procedures that doctors perform. According to the World Health Organization, there are several reasons for this spike, and many of them are culture-specific. For example, in countries that are fairly litigious, like the United States, C-sections may be preferred because they eliminate certain risks that vaginal deliveries pose. Thus, doctors who fear potential lawsuits may be inclined to schedule C-sections for more of their patients; however, like any medical procedure, mistakes can happen, and complications do arise. At the......
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April 16th, 2018On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Monday, April 16, 2018. Many Louisiana parents with children who suffer from developmental problems worry that their children will suffer a premature death as a result of those conditions. The care and advice given by doctors and other medical professionals goes a long way to help ease some of these worries. However, sometimes after the death of someone suffering from a developmental disorder, families do not believe that everything that could have been done to prevent their loved one’s death. The family of a 16-year-old boy claims that medical malpractice contributed to the boy’s untimely demise. Earlier this month, a......
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