Lawyers for a cancer patient’s family are seeking to collect a $1 million sanction imposed on a Pennsylvania lawyer for allegedly allowing an improper reference in a medical malpractice case.
The family of a man whose Ebola wasn’t initially diagnosed by a Texas hospital has settled a potential claim against the facility over his delayed treatment for an undisclosed amount.
A Pennsylvania lawyer has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in attorney fees for allowing an expert witness to refer to a lung cancer victim’s history of smoking in…
One of Portugal’s highest courts has reduced compensation for a woman who suffered incontinence and painful sex after botched surgery, saying that sex for an older woman “does not have…
Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was sent home with antibiotics when he first visited the emergency room on Sept. 25. Could the hospital face liability in a suit by…
The family of a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after tonsil surgery is seeking to revoke her death certificate, offering a video as proof that she can respond to…
Dr. Kimber Eubanks says the injection-site injury that Joel Burnette at first complained of, according to family and friends, wasn’t reflected in medical records and hence didn’t exist.
Reversing a trial judge’s dismissal of a medical malpractice suit on statute of limitations grounds, a California appeals court ruled Wednesday that the family of an 80-year-old woman initially had…
Critics of a California law that caps medical malpractice, non-economic damages at $250,000 say they have enough signatures for a ballot initiative that would raise the limit if passed.
A $32 million settlement in a malpractice case against the University of Chicago Medical Center last year will allow an 11-year-old who had both arms and both legs amputated to…
A New York judge has overturned a jury verdict for the defense in a dental malpractice case due to the conduct of a lawyer who was retained by a major…
It was intended to be a joke shared with a fellow worker at a California hospital, an anesthesiologist said in a deposition. But the stickers he admittedly placed on the…
In June 2013, for the third time in four years, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt with the question of when federal law preempts state tort liability for those injured by…
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