State legislature recently passed a bill eliminating the 180-day limit by which an injured person must submit a medical malpractice claim. Previously, if a person made a claim against state employees, it had to be done within 180 days of the injury in question, whereas there is a three-year time limitation on filing a claim against a privately run health care provider.

Now, with the new bill, claims against state-run health care institutions and state employees must be made within three years. The bill's supporters argued that the short time limit is unfair, and people are never notified that they have 180 days to file a medical malpractice claim if anything goes wrong.

If you need to file a medical malpractice claim, do not wait. Contact the Stevens Point medical malpractice attorneys of Habush, Habush & Rottier, S.C., today by calling 800-242-2874.

 In California, a county judge has decided to put a $1.6 settlement medical malpractice case on hold.  The case involves a 24 year old woman who was paralyzed by the County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, while she was undergoing back surgery.

The case was brought forth in 2005, and has been under settlement negotiations ever since.  $1.5 million dollars is at state for the county, along with another million from the hospital that did the surgery.   

They have scheduled the next hearing for December 5^th to discuss where the case is going, whether a settlement is possible or if the girl decides to take the county to court.

Contact a Stevens Point Personal Injury Lawyer

If you or someone you know has been involved in a medical malpractice case like this, contact the Stevens Point personal injury attorneys of Habush, Habush & Rottier at 800-248-0171.

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections routinely hires doctors that have been reprimanded for serious occurrences by the State Medical Examination Board to care the population of the state prisons. One doctor hired by the Department of Corrections was sanctioned for causing severe brain damage to a 16-month-old boy who was receiving anesthetics before having his tonsils removed. Another wrote false prescriptions to herself to receive drugs. A third gave out pain killers to patients without actually diagnosing an illness. Of the 23 physicians employed with the department in April of this year, four, or 17 percent, have been disciplined by the state Medical Examining Board for incidents that occurred before the department hired them. Of 37 physicians on the department's payroll since the beginning of 2002, eight, or nearly 22 percent, have been disciplined for incidents that happened either before they were hired or during their employment with the department. This isn't an awful percentage until compared to the state percentage of 1.5 to 2% of the state's doctors. If you have been injured due to the error of a doctor, contact the Stevens Point medical malpractice lawyers of Habush, Habush, & Rottier, S.C. at 1-800-248-0171 to discuss your case and to determine your legal options.