Head & Brain Injuries

• Patients Pay for Tort Reform

  John Hopkins | January 01, 2007 3:18 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Florida doctors have been successful in passing sweeping tort reform measures twice in this state. Each time they made claims that verdicts handed down by "uninformed" jurors were outrageously high and they were having trouble paying high premiums for malpractice insurance. They threatened the citizens of Florida that they were all going to leave the state and they would leave us with no one to...

• Robots to the Rescue

  John Hopkins | November 26, 2006 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Victims of stroke and autistic children are being helped by a robot and a video game. A robot guides the limbs of stroke patients repeatedly through a video game. The constant manipulation helps to rehabilitate damaged limbs of stroke patients. The robot takes over the movement of the joystick if the patient is not capable of moving it appropriately. Autistic children are also being assisted...

• We Can All Sleep Better...Malpractice Insurers Reaping Profits

  John Hopkins | November 10, 2006 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Injured victims of medical negligence continue to suffer the inability to find lawyers who have the expertise and financial strength to handle medical negligence cases. The passage of "tort reform" in Florida has created a situation in which injured victims can no longer recover fair compensation for their "human damages". Human damages are those that the insurance lobby feel juries have gotten...

• Caps on Damages Sound Good Until Tragedy Strikes Near You

  John Hopkins | September 22, 2006 9:50 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  I recently read an article relating to a news cast on Fox 28, in Indiana and it raised those sensitive hackles on the back of my neck. The article was about Ashley Faloon and an auto accident that landed her in the hospital. She was recovering well from what were relatively minor injuries; when a nurse injected her IV line with insulin. Certainly, the nurses action was accidental; she certainly...

• Brain Injuries: The Iraq War's Legacy

  Staff Writer | August 20, 2006 11:42 AM | 0 CommentsWest Palm Beach, FL

  Michael Kaplan in New York has been doing a great job of keeping up with news and developments on the alarming number of soldiers who are returning from Iraq with brain injuries. Ever since the USA Today brought the country's attention to the problem, soldiers and veterans have been battling the Senate Committee considering federal funding for a brain injury research center.