Medicare is planning to allow insurance companies, consumer groups and employers access to the government’s extensive claims database in order to produce report cards on doctors and hospitals. The goal is to ensure consumers have more information when looking for a specialist or particular hospital for treatment. Doctors will be identified through Medicare files, according…
Choosing a doctor or surgeon can be a crapshoot. Patients often have little or no information on physicians’ experience or history of successful treatments, medical mistakes or malpractice claims. This puts people needing health care services ranging from long-term care for chronic conditions like diabetes to back surgery at risk for suffering life-threatening and debilitating…
In his latest post to our firm’s North Carolina Injuryboard blog site, personal injury attorney Rick Shapiro reports on a DWI accident at a drunk driving checkpoint in Newton, North Carolina (NC). Only the impaired driver suffered injuries at the highway intersection where police were enforcing drunk and drugged driving laws as part of a…
What is the world coming to when people can’t control their vehicles? Whether it’s distracted drivers, cell phones or fatigue, drivers all across Virginia and the Carolinas have been getting injured and killed in head-on collisions. View Larger Map This was the case when the driver of a car collided head-on with a tractor-trailer on Route…
A 17-year-old became the second fatality from a head-on, wrong-way crash in Hampton, Virginia (VA), early in the morning of December 4, 2011. Another woman died shortly after the crash near the J. Clyde Morris Bouevard exit. Both women were freshmen-year students at Christopher Newport University. View Larger Map Any accident is tragic, but as…