Injury Blog

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed by Congress in 1996 in order to create standardized protections for patients’ sensitive health information. The law focuses primarily on guarding against the intentional or inadvertent disclosure of patient’s “individually identifiable health information” without their knowledge or consent. Healthcare providers […]

By and large, our medical providers do everything they can to provide safe, effective medical care. Unfortunately, mistakes can still occur, and surprisingly, they happen more often than people realize. And while medical malpractice can happen at any time, certain procedures are more likely to result in medical malpractice claims […]

Medical malpractice cases are arguably the most complicated type of personal injury claim. One of the reasons for this is that medical malpractice can be difficult to identify. Another reason is that medical documentation can be very difficult to understand. Even if it would appear that you are obviously the […]

Stress testing is used to assess how well the heart functions while under stress. It usually involves having the patient walk or run on a treadmill in order to achieve a certain heart rate in order to identify potential heart problems. As the test begins, the patient will walk at […]