According to the article “Grave el cuadro de salud mental en Puerto Rico” by Benajamín Torres Gotay, published in the newspaper El Nuevo Día on January 16, 2017, mental health problems in Puerto Rico are bigger than what was imagined. According to an epidemiologic study…
Last October 4, 2014, the Court of Appeals of Puerto Rico decided that “forum selection clauses” are illegal and cannot be included in the documents to be signed by a patient as a requirement prior to receiving medical attention. This is the case of Hospital…
On February 3, 2014, Puerto Rico’s Legislature approved Bill Number 5 in order to amend the Health Insurance Code. The amendment states that only the doctor is the one who can decide over the hospitalization of the patient. Therefore, the determination regarding the hospitalization of a…
According to an article on February 18, 2014, by “El Nuevo Día”, the Health Insurance Administration (“Administración de Seguros de Salud” or ASES) will try to recover 9.7 million dollars, for payments made twice to twelve insurance companies. These insurance companies provided services to beneficiaries…
Judge Olga Gacría Vicenti from the Court of First Instance, Superior Court of San Juan, issue a $5 million dollars ($500,000,000.00) sentence against the Pediatric Hospital of the Medical Science Campus, in a case where the plaintiff alleged that medical malpractice caused cerebral damages to…
According to the article titled “Malpractice: Savings Reconsidered” published on October 13th, 2009 by the Fact Check Organization’s web page, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has revised its opinion regarding the possible limits on medical malpractice liability due to new evidence. The CBO concluded that…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,600 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about…
More than 10 families of possible victims of the acinetobacter baumanni outbreak have trust SolerLaw to conduct the pertinent investigation, with the purpose of knowing if the deaths of the victims were caused by such dangerous bacteria, which is multiresistant to antibiotics. The accounts of…
The federal statute implemented by the Obamacare pursues that everyone interested in buying a health care plan can obtain it, provided they pay the pertinent premium, which will vary between the costs of $60-$100.00. One of the achievements of this statute is that it compels…
Once again, the Board of Licensing and Medical Discipline (in the past the Court of Medical Examiners) fails to comply with its purpose to exist. For the past months, there has been many complains from the health care professionals regarding the great bureaucracy and delays…