Denver Trial Attorney Blog | Leventhal Puga Braley P.C.
When Doctors Work for the Drug Company
All over the country, stories have come to light about healthcare providers receiving kickbacks and other financial incentives to recommend certain testing labs or prescribe drugs made by a particular manufacturer. Not only is this a horrendous ethical violation that can put lives in danger, it also violates federal and state laws. Drug companies and labs have made huge profits off the illnesses they claim to care about, and some doctors have helped them and profited from these practices. Read the rest »
Is Your Ski Collision Worth a Lawsuit?
In the past few months, our trial lawyers at Leventhal & Puga, P.C., have made headlines for representing victims injured at ski resorts. In one case, a woman passed away after being ejected from the Quick Draw Express lift at Granby Ranch in Colorado; in the other, a man was confined to a wheelchair due to negligent medical care after a snowboarding crash at Keystone Resort in Colorado.
Injuries caused by skiing and snowboarding are not uncommon. Unfortunately, the cause of such collisions is often related to HUMAN ERROR. Whether you were personally injured after a collision, or are just an avid skier or snowboarder, you may be wondering what happens when the cause of a collision is another person. Read the rest »
“Never Events” Are Always Happening
What Are Never Events?
So-called never events are medical mistakes so egregious that they are never supposed to happen. Since never events are not natural complications of medical procedures, they are, by definition, avoidable. As such, never events are almost always grounds for a medical malpractice lawsuit. Read the rest »
Infections Confirmed in Porter Adventist Surgery Patients
The Colorado Health Department has confirmed surgical site infections in a number of patients who received surgery at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver. The number of patients has not been released; the types of infection have not been disclosed.
Porter Adventist is currently under investigation after Colorado health inspectors discovered that the hospital failed to comply with mandatory sterilization protocols on surgical equipment between July 21, 2016, and April 5, 2018. The health department was notified of the breach on February 21st, and conducted an on-site survey the next day. Read the rest »
When Childbirth Goes Wrong, Can You Sue?
Being born is traumatic. There is no argument about that. As a human child is pushed through and out of the birth canal, he or she will be forced to use lungs for the first time, feel cold for the first time, see bright lights burning the eyes, be startled by loud noises, and perhaps even feel pain during his or her arrival into the world.
However, some trauma that babies endure during birth is not part of nature’s process. Read the rest »
Infection Dangers to Consider Before Heading to the Hospital
“The older you are, the worse the hospital is for you.”
That CNN headline grabbed attention when it was originally published in August 2016, and it is just as true now as it was then. The article, written by a correspondent for Kaiser Health News, detailed how elderly patients check into hospitals to be treated and leave in much worse condition. “About one-third of patients over 70 years old and more than half of patients over 85 leave the hospital more disabled than when they arrived, research shows.”
The danger of hospitals is real, but it is not limited to the elderly. One serious risk to all healthcare patients is infection. Read the rest »
How Common Is Medical Malpractice?
A 2016 study released by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Read the rest »