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• $65,000,000 Dry Cleaner Lawsuit Official Pleadings
  May 07, 2007

  You can ge the official Joint Pretrial Statement of the $65,000,000 dry cleaners lawsuit here. - 31 - 40

• Personal Injury Attorney Resources
  Jun 25, 2006

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Virginia Medical Malpractice Cases

• Joint Commission Works to Prevent Wrong Site Surgery
  Jul 21, 2010

  The Joint Commission Board of Commissioners originally approved the Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure and Wrong Person Surgery^TM in July 2003, and it became effective July 1, 2004 for all accredited hospitals, ambulatory care and office-based surgery facilities. The Universal Protocol was created to address the continuing occurrence of wrong site, wrong procedure and wrong person surgery in Joint Commission accredited organizations. The Universal Protocol drew upon, and expanded and integrated, a series of requirements under The Joint Commission's 2003 and 2004 National Patient Safety Goals. There are three principal components of the Universal Protocol: conducting a preprocedure verification process, marking the procedure site, and performing a time-out before the procedure. - 33 - 40

• Joint Commission Works to Prevent Wrong Site Surgery
  Jul 21, 2010

  The Joint Commission Board of Commissioners originally approved the Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure and Wrong Person Surgery^TM in July 2003, and it became effective July 1, 2004 for all accredited hospitals, ambulatory care and office-based surgery facilities. The Universal Protocol was created to address the continuing occurrence of wrong site, wrong procedure and wrong person surgery in Joint Commission accredited organizations. The Universal Protocol drew upon, and expanded and integrated, a series of requirements under The Joint Commission's 2003 and 2004 National Patient Safety Goals. There are three principal components of the Universal Protocol: conducting a preprocedure verification process, marking the procedure site, and performing a time-out before the procedure. - 34 - 40

• You Can Now Volunteer Your Family for Tort Reform
  Apr 28, 2010

  Virginia attorney Ben Glass has figured out a way for you (and the politicians you love) to volunteer for tort reform.
  
  Volunteer your family for medical malpractice tort reform.
  
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• Fredericksbur Paper Reports on Surgeon who Operated on Wrong Side
  Apr 21, 2010

  We are involved in a lawsuit where we alledge that the surgeon operated on the wrong side of the shoulder.
  
  Our video blog on this case is here.
  
  The Free Lance Star article is here.
  
  The medical malpractice claim states that the orthopedic surgeon failed to take the right steps to identify and mark the operative site and then failed to wake the patient up  and terminate the surgery once he realized that he couldn’t recall where he had planned to operate. As a result, the patient had to undergo an additional surgery.
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• Virginia Tort Reform Allows Insurance Company to Gamble
  Mar 20, 2010

  A recent medical malpractice case in Fairfax County once again demonstrates just how unfairly Virginia law treats medical malpractice victims.
  
  A man suffered a perforated esophagus while eating. A radiologist using "tele-medicine" misdiagnosed him and an anesthesia group allegedly caused a heart attack. The man eventually died, leaving  a wife and two children.
  
  Totally unneccessary death. A jury carefully considered the evidence and awarded the family almost $3 million. Not a lot of money, frankly. The law took a huge chunk of that money and, in essence, gave it back to the insurance company for the radiologist.  "Here's a present."
  
  I've blogged more details about the untold side of Virginia's medical malpractice law. The side that is kept hidden from juries and, for the most part, the public.
  
  Go here to read more about the $1.15 million robbery  in this Virginia malpractice case.
  
  Here's another case where someone who was supposed to be operated on instead caught fire in operating room. The law stole from her, too. This time it was $2.25 million. - 37 - 40

• Virginia Supreme Court upholds verdict following a fire in the operating room
  Nov 10, 2009

  After an unthinkable fire caused horrendous injuries for a woman undergoing simple thyroid surgery a trial resulted in a $4 million verdict. The verdict was reduced per Virginia's "reform" statutes but the defendant surgeon who is found responsible for the fire appealed. Recently, the Supreme Court of Virginia dismissed her appeal has been filed too late. You can read the rest of the story involving an operating room fire here. - 38 - 40

• Doctor Misdiagnoses Cancer and Cuts Off Leg
  Oct 12, 2009

  This poor woman had her leg cut off in England after an erroneous pathology report. In the United States, if national tort reform passes, she would be entitled to about $275,000. Is this what we want?
  
  Here is the article about the woman who had a healthy leg cut off after a pathology error. - 39 - 40

• One of the largest verdicts in Virginia
  Feb 20, 2009

  Fairfax, Virginia medical malpractice attorney Ben Glass had one of the largest verdicts in Virginia.
  
  Here is the report of this Virginia misdiagnosis of cancer case.
  
  
  
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