Mancini & Associates Blog

Our health care system is just as challenging, confusing, and daunting as our immigration system. When we send our loved ones to the hospital the only thing we can do is pray and hope that a cure is found. While we wait for diagnosis or surgery, we contemplate things like how are we to afford

When a consumer called Washington Beef, LLC, to complain about unknown materials they discovered in their meat, they probably did not know they would trigger a massive recall. On March 3, the company, in conjunction with the US Department of Agriculture, issued a recall on over 30,000 pounds of beef products. The company has not

When Leilani Schweitzer experienced an incredible loss due to a medical mistake, she turned her grieving into a powerful force that seeks to help others dealing with similar situations. Schweitzer is currently a patient liaison for Stanford University Hospital’s Risk Management team and her job is to help mediate adverse outcomes (mistakes) when they occur

Two random attacks in downtown Los Angeles have put Sherman Oaks downtown commuters on edge. Two of these attacks include a man being pushed in front of an oncoming truck and a teenager being pushed onto the Metro Red Line tracks. There is no clear explanation and no motive given for these random attacks, which

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) warned that the salmonella turkey outbreak that started late last year is still ongoing. The CDC released updated numbers for people and states who have been affected by this outbreak which now includes 41 states, has caused illness in almost 300 people, over 100 hospitalizations,

Whenever someone is injured and those injuries result in death from a party or person who is negligent or reckless with their actions, it is a wrongful death. Every death is wrong because it hurts their loved ones, but in the legal sense wrongful death is a civil suit to obtain justice for the loss

Every year, recently, approximately 35 million people visit the hospital. This may sound like a lot, but over the years the amount of people entering hospitals has been decreasing. Today we have 1000 fewer hospitals than before and still, we are seeing a decrease in patient income. However, when we think of the medical staff

We like to think that we’re in good hands when we go to the doctor, from our family doctors who we see for general health problems to surgeons that we trust with our lives on the operating table. But what happens when a doctor surrenders his medical license instead of having it revoked? Can he

We already knew that there was a nationwide recall of infant ibuprofen sold by a New Jersey company, but now we have heard that the recall has been expended. Earlier this year, we learned that their infant ibuprofen may contain a higher concentration of the drug than labeled. Tris Pharma, Inc. expanded the voluntary recall

We recently learned that Walgreens has come under fire because it seems they have been dispensing mediations illegally for over 10 years at multiple California Walgreens locations. The California pharmacy board says that from between November 2006 to September 2017, Kim Thien Le has filled almost 750,000 prescriptions. The problem is that she is not,