During Luis Fortuño’s government, the then Secretary of Health signed the 544-2004 Regulation from the Department of Health. In said Regulation, which defined and created the trauma centers, the possible compensation to medical malpractice victims was limited to only $75,000. The terrible thing of this…
“Shoemaker to their shoes”. Frequently we receive in our offices “cries for help” from medical malpractice victims who have entrusted their medical malpractice cases to attorneys without the needed experience in these types of cases. Typically, they arrive desperately because they have realized their attorneys…
According to the newspaper El Nuevo Día, on April 27th, 2013, Puerto Rico’s medical institutions conglomerate, which operate under HIMA’s umbrella, has just ended their contract with MMM (“Medicare y Mucho Más”) medical insurer, in order to provide medical services to the golden age. According…
As discussed some time ago, the past Secretary of Health, Dr. Lorenzo González, administratively amended the Regulation 8131 (trauma centers certification) with the only purpose of unjustly favoring doctors and hospitals by limiting the maximum compensation of $75,000 for the damages sustained by any medical…
On February 9, 2013, El Nuevo Día published that “finally” Puerto Rico’s government opened the facilities of the new Trauma Center of Centro Médico. This facility, created by Aníbal Acevedo Vilá’s administration, was ready since 2009, but was empty and not in use. Governor Alejandro…
Today, I want to share with the reader that in the past months, I have noticed a considerable increase in the consultation of cases, where the medical negligence has been of such magnitude, that you do not need to be a doctor to notice it.…