Posts tagged Medical Malpractice

• Single Car Wrecks - "Can I Sue Daddy?"

  Ward Merdes | March 10, 2007 4:06 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Kids hurt when a family vehicle goes off the road are doubly-helpless. A driving parent doesn't want to admit fault, and their own insurance carrier will deny benefits to the injured child. Call an attorney ASAP when your family is in a single-vehicle wreck. You have rights that your insurer won't mention.Motor vehicle wrecks. Nobody wants to think about them - but they happen anyway. Real...

• Alaskans Going Overseas for Medical Procedures

  Shannon Weidemann | January 24, 2007 11:24 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Due to high medical costs, in part related to the high cost of medical malpractice insurance, Alaskans are being lured overseas by the low costs of medical tourism.Chuck Klemer, of the Denali area, flew to Thailand with his wife Dulce Havill to receive a hip replacement. They have no health insurance. The operation in the United States would have cost around $40,000. The cost for the trip to...

• Medical Malpractice Awareness Needed

  Staff Writer | March 17, 2006 9:14 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Fellow blogger David Lowe points out that the Association of Trial Lawyers of America was campaining last week to bring attention the death toll from medical errors in America's hospitals. National Patient Safety Awareness Week spread the word that "Congress Should Protect Patients, Not Those Guilty of Medical Negligence."David also directs his readers to a fact sheet provided by the National...