http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog Opinions and comments on medical malpractice law Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:35:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Several national news outlets, including the LA Times and the NY Times have reported on expected new recommendation from the NIH regarding Vaginal Birth After C-Section ("VBAC"). In the past, the medical community followed the rule ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=452 A federal rule, published on January 28, by the Department of Health and Human Services, expands the scope of the NPDB to include disciplinary information not just on physicians, but on all licensed health care professionals. The new ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=451 As noted here previously, New Hampshire recently considered the question of whether a plaintiff could state a claim for "loss of a chance". "Lost Chance Doctrine" allows a plaintiff to claim damages for a lost "chance" at ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=450 The Massachusetts Board of Medicine ("Board") has been without one public member and one physician member for over a year. The Board has also been functioning without an appointed Exceutive Director - the Chair of the Board, ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=449 On 2/4/10 the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois overturned the State's cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases, finding the cap to be unconstitutional. In Lebron v. Gottlieb Memorial Hospital , the court declared ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=448 The New Hampshire Supreme Court answered the "$110 million question" last week, ruling on the issue of whether the state can tap the reserves of the New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association, which is funded by health ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=447 In a post that William Safire surely would have relished, the legal blog "Volokh Conspiracy" noted in a post this week "the first appearance of the word 'blog' in a [US] Supreme Court opinion." ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=445 LANDYA BOYER McCAFFERTY SELECTED AS NEW UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE Chief Judge Steven J. McAuliffe announced today that Landya Boyer McCafferty, Esq., has been unanimously selected by the judges of the court as the next United States Magistrate Judge for the District ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=444 The Union Leader reports that a successor to long-time Federal District Court Magistrate Judge James Muirhead has been named: Landya Boyer McCafferty. McCafferty , who received her law degree from Northeastern University in 1991, practiced law in ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=443 New Hampshire's House defeated a bill on Wednesday that would have allowed the legalization of assisted suicide for terminally ill patients. The House voted 242-113 against the bill, which would have allowed the terminally ill to obtain lethal prescriptions, with safeguards to prevent abuses. Supporters argued the bill ... http://www.nkms.com/nkmsblog/index.php?p=442