{"id":1673,"date":"2008-01-17T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/medical_malpractice_limits_on\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:09:39","slug":"medical-malpractice-limits-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/medical-malpractice-limits-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta\/Georgia Medical Malpractice Limits on Recoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our medical malpractice attorneys are frequently forced to decline cases which have merit from a liability standpoint, but due to caps on the amount of recovery cannot be justified in economic terms.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Los Angeles Times ran a story concerning a 72 year old woman who entered Stanford University Medical Center for double knee replacement surgery in April.  Four days later, she was dead.  Her son, an anesthesiologist, felt that the case was a classic case of medical malpractice.  After the operation, his mother developed sharp abdominal pain which she described as a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10.  The hospital failed to diagnose the cause of her pain and continued to treat her with pain relievers.  Her vital signs became unstable and she was moved to an intensive care unit, but she died of complications from an undiagnosed and untreated bowel obstruction.<\/p>\n<p>According to the story,  state regulators found the hospital at fault and cited it.  The anesthesiologist and his family decided to sue and approached 24 lawyers.  All the lawyers declined to take the case for the same reason &#8211; the medical malpractice caps on the amount of recovery didn\u2019t justify the expenses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/medical-malpractice-limits-on\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Atlanta\/Georgia Medical Malpractice Limits on Recoveries\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our medical malpractice attorneys are frequently forced to decline cases which have merit from a liability standpoint, but due to caps on the amount of recovery cannot be justified in economic terms. 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