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• OMIC Celebrates 25 Years with Reception and iPad Drawing
  

  October 1, 2012, marked OMIC’s 25th year of providing professional liability insurance to members of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. To thank our nearly 4,500 valued policyholders for helping us reach this milestone, OMIC has automatically entered all insured ophthalmologists in a free drawing for a chance to win a new Apple iPad. The drawing […]

• Read the Label Carefully: How Advertisements for “Off-label” Drugs or Devices Could Harm Your Practice
  

  When legal action is initiated against your practice alleging medical malpractice, plaintiff attorneys often carefully review your advertisements, radio and television commercials, web site and social media pages, marketing brochures, and patient education documents looking for inaccurate, unsubstantiated, or misleading information. Problematic statements in your advertisements, if relevant to the case, could sway potential jurors in favor of the […]

• Several New and Revised Consent Forms Published by OMIC
  

  Several new and revised informed consent documents and risk management recommendations documents were recently uploaded. CATARACT SURGERY New: Same Day Sequential Bilateral Surgery Addendum New: Femtosecond Laser Cataract Surgery Addendum RETINA New: Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Injections for Adults: Risk Management Recommendations Revised: AvastinTM (bevacizumab) Consent Revised: EyleaTM (aflibercept) Consent Revised: LucentisTM (ranibizumab) Consent Revised: OzurdexTM (dexamethasone) […]

• “Apology” Laws May Not Always Protect You
  

  It is only natural that your first instinct will be to comfort your patients and their families and loved-ones when medical or surgical procedures do not turn out the way you had hoped or expected. Be careful to do so in a planned and well thought-out manner in order to protect yourself. A recent precedent-setting case in […]