Missouri

  • Read more: Malpractice, Terminal Patients, and Cause in Fact

    Malpractice, Terminal Patients, and Cause in Fact

    By Alex Stein Any person interested in medical malpractice or torts in general must read the Missouri Supreme Court’s recent decision, Mickels v. Danrad, 486 S.W.3d 327 (Mo. 2016). This decision involved a physician who negligently failed to diagnose the presence of a malignant brain tumor, from which the patient was doomed to die. The patient first saw the physician when…

  • Read more: Medical Malpractice: The New Wave of Constitutional Attacks on Damage Caps

    Medical Malpractice: The New Wave of Constitutional Attacks on Damage Caps

    By Alex Stein About forty-five years ago, tort reforms took off and states have started capping compensation awards for victims of medical malpractice. The plaintiffs bar countered this initiative by raising different constitutional challenges against caps. Those challenges alluded to equal protection, due process, separation of powers, and the general right to a jury trial. Some…

  • Read more: Abortion Derangement Syndrome, Missouri Edition

    Abortion Derangement Syndrome, Missouri Edition

    By Gregory M. Lipper Although the biggest abortion-related news last week came from the U.S. Supreme Court, a Missouri state senator (turned Attorney General candidate) took the prize for most bizarre. Senator Kurt Schaefer—chairman of the Missouri Senate’s interim “Committee on the Sanctity of Life”—wrote a stern letter to the University of Missouri; he suggested that…