Is Defensive Medicine Driving Up Healthcare Costs?
At Buttafuoco & Associates, we often hear it stated as fact: the risk of frivolous lawsuits drives up the cost of health care. Or that malpractice lawsuits and premiums for malpractice insurance are squarely to blame for out-of-control healthcare costs. In reality, the malpractice system only makes up a fraction of healthcare costs in the […]
4 Medical Errors That Can Lead to a Malpractice Lawsuit
While we all want to believe that the medical professionals we entrust to our care are competent enough to heal us rather than harm us, sadly this isn’t always the case. Negligent actions of health care professionals result in countless injuries and deaths each and every year, but people often fail to report them as […]
Da Vinci Robotical Surgery – RISK for serious injury
Each year, hundreds of thousands of American patients are operated upon using the da Vinci surgery robot, yet the benefits of the surgical robot are still unproven. Caught up in an “arms race” for the best technology, many American hospitals have shouldered the great expense of offering da Vinci robot surgery, even without scientific proof […]
How Much Is My Case Worth?
If you have been seriously injured due to someone else’s negligence you might be wondering – “How much is my personal injury case worth?There is a very complex, scientific method to determine the value of a personal injury case. This process involves measuring (including but not limited to) medical bills, lost wages, pain and […]
How Long will my case take to settle?
“How Long will my case take to settle?” This common question has a complicated answers. It depends based on the specific facts of your case. We inform all of our clients that a personal injury case can take anywhere from several months to a few years; with the larger cases taking the longest. The length […]
Jennie-O Recalls 55,000 Pounds of Turkey Burger Over Salmonella
Fox News reports…. Jennie-O Turkey recalled 55,000 pounds of turkey burger this weekend after being linked to a dozen cases of salmonella in 10 states. The raw, frozen turkey burgers were sold nationwide exclusively at Sam’s Club stores. They were sold in boxes of 12 individually wrapped burgers labeled “Jennie-O Turkey Store All Natural Lean […]
Think Tort Reform is a Good Idea? Think again!
This article was written by the managing attorney of my firm in response to an article calling for tort reform printed in The Village Times Herald in March 2005. Though this article is already a few years old, it’s still very relevant as those in favor of tort reform (namely physicians and insurance companies) are, […]
Harvard Study Casts Doubt on Claims that the Legal System is Plagued with Frivolous Med Mal Lawsuits
Very often we hear claims that the legal/litigation system is full of frivolous lawsuits, especially frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits, that are brought by money hungry uninjured people or people whose injuries were not the result of malpractice. But this is not at all the case according to a recent study done by the Harvard School […]
