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Burns, Cunningham & Mackey, P.C., Attorneys at Law
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Mobile, AL 36602
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Mobile, AL 36633
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Never Events
/by Pete Burns“Never events” are medical errors that the Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation says should never happen. They include operating on or removing the wrong limb (reported 116 times in 2008) and inadvertently leaving foreign objects in the patient’s body (reported 71 times in 2008). “Never events” are a good marker for the quality of care […]
Urge Congress to Pass the Medical Device Safety Act
/by Billy CunninghamLast Spring the Supreme Court ruled in Riegel v. Medtronic, 552. U.S. 2 (2008) that a medical device manufacturer cannot be sued under state law by patients who claim to have been harmed by the device that received marketing approval from the FDA. In response The Medical Device Safety Act of 2009 was introduced in […]
No Need to Change Med-Mal Tort System
/by Billy CunninghamCongress has studies which indicate there is no need to change or interfere with the tort system in medical malpractice cases. Those studies have been published and can be found in the Congressional Budget Office (“CBO”) paper entitled Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance Proposals. This study produced during Bush’s administration does not support […]
Medical Malpractice: The Michigan Model
/by Pete BurnsThe typical victim of a medical error wants fair compensation not a lawsuit. Most doctors would rather have their insurance companies pay legitimate claims than be forced to endure a lawsuit. Doctors and patient’s are victims of the refusal of medical liability companies to pay legitimate claims. I have been handling medical malpractice cases for […]
‘Tort Reform’ Will Not Resolve Our Healthcare Crisis
/by Billy CunninghamWell, Republicans stood up and clapped for President Obama last Wednesday night when he said he was going to have his Secretary of Health and Human Services to move forward on Bush administration initiative of demonstration projects studying whether in doctors practicing defensive medicine are contributing to unnecessary medical costs, how to put patient safety […]