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Parents in Idaho want their children to be healthy and safe. Sadly, many infants are born with birth injuries. It’s important to know about these issues and how they can affect children. What is a birth injury? Birth injuries often involve trauma. Some, like scalp...
Figures show about 12 million diagnostic errors occur annually from misdiagnosis, causing death or disability. Misdiagnosis in Boise, Idaho, means the doctor found a condition, but the wrong one. There are several conditions and illnesses that are more prone to...
Did your baby have “cooling” in the NICU? Some doctors call this newborn whole body “hypothermic cooling.” Parents often do not understand why their newborn baby had to be cooled in the NICU. Parents may be told differing, even conflicting reasons for why their baby had to have cooling. Medical experts explain that the main reason for hypothermic cooling is…
Was your newborn baby diagnosed with HIE in the NICU? We may be able to help. HIE is short for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. It is a type of brain injury caused by a lack of oxygenated blood flowing to the brain. In some cases, this happens to an infant during labor and delivery due to medical malpractice. If medical malpractice…
The last four years have continued the overall willingness of the Idaho Supreme Court to reverse summary judgments in medical malpractice cases as long as the basic rules have been followed. Consistently, the Idaho Supreme Court has continued to reiterate the well-settled rules that can be relied upon to meet the foundational requirements of Idaho Code §6-1013 without undue confusion.…
From 2000 through 2010, the Idaho Supreme Court addressed the application of Idaho Code §6-1013 on no less than twelve separate occasions, with cases in all six of the general categories outlined above. Throughout this timeframe, the Court reemphasized that there is more than one manner in which an out-of-area expert can become appropriately familiar with the standard of care…
“[T]he question of how to qualify and out-of-area physician to render an opinion in a medical malpractice case ‘has plagued the bench and trial bar since the enactment of Idaho’s statutory structure…requiring proof [of] actual knowledge of the local standard of care.” Grover v. Smith, 137 Idaho 247, 249, 46 P.3d 1105, 1107 (2002), quoting Keyser v. Garner, 129 Idaho 112,…
Created: 04 January 2021 Personal injury law in 2021 will experience several important trends. One key trend is that defendants and insurance companies in personal injury cases will continue to be motivated to settle cases out of court during the current Covid pandemic situation. This is because, all else being equal, personal injury jury trials are being delayed for months…
Created: 23 December 2020 Mahoney Law, PLLC of Idaho provides product liability law firm services to those seriously injured by unreasonably dangerous and unsafe products. Our product liability attorney assists individuals and families who have suffered injury or death due to unsafe products, with either manufacturing defects or design defects. Mahoney Law’s product liability lawyer helps you investigate and determine…
Created: 18 December 2020 Many potential new clients understandably want to know how the lawyer in a personal injury case gets paid. The same thing is true on medical malpractice cases where injured patients ask about how the attorney for the patient is compensated. Whether it is a brain injury case, an automobile collision claim, or a medical malpractice lawsuit,…