337 ABA Journal Medical Malpractice articles.
Shackled and attired in faded gray-and-white-striped jail uniforms, three personal injury attorneys involved in mega-bucks fen-phen litigation attended a federal court hearing in Kentucky today to seek their release.
Accused…
Sep 11, 2007 8:10 PM CDT
A Texas plaintiffs firm that sued to collect an attorney fee from a former client in a medical malpractice case won exactly nothing after a three-day jury trial.
But a…
Sep 5, 2007 11:47 PM CDT
In what may be the first case of its kind in the country, a San Francisco transplant surgeon has been charged with intentionally hastening a patient’s death in order to…
Jul 31, 2007 8:12 PM CDT
The joke isn’t on Dr. Robert Woo after all. The Washington state dentist is going to get the last laugh—and $750,000—the Washington Supreme Court has decided, in an insurance coverage…
Jul 27, 2007 11:38 PM CDT
The family of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide filed a federal lawsuit today claiming the Department of Veterans Affairs was negligent in his death.
The suit claims 23-year-old…
Jul 26, 2007 8:56 PM CDT
Two longtime law partners in Jacksonville, Fla., have agreed to an amicable split, saying that their plaintiff personal injury firm had grown so large they were essentially officing together rather…
Jul 26, 2007 12:40 AM CDT
A lawsuit filed last month claims a lawyer caused grievous emotional distress by asking upsetting questions during a deposition.
The lawyer, Judith Wahrenberger, asked a medical malpractice plaintiff whether he…
Jul 25, 2007 12:56 PM CDT
A Florida couple has won a $21 million jury award over a misdiagnosis of their first child’s rare genetic defect that led them, they say, to have another child two…
Jul 24, 2007 8:30 PM CDT
In a study that has obvious implications for the legal profession, too, Harvard University researchers have detailed how unconscious bias can significantly affect life-and-death decision-making by doctors.
Although previous studies…
Jul 20, 2007 9:16 PM CDT
Persuaded by a lobbyist that Minouche Noel really needed the $8.5 million she had been awarded by a Florida jury for being paralyzed in a botched surgery, the state legislature…
Jul 19, 2007 7:21 PM CDT
It isn’t just defendants and jurors who have been pushing their luck lately by blogging about their case while it is at trial. An attorney representing an alleged mobster in…
Jul 10, 2007 1:06 AM CDT
Several nurses are reportedly soon to testify before a grand jury, two of them under immunity grants, in an ongoing criminal investigation of the deaths of at least four hospitalized…
Jun 20, 2007 11:26 PM CDT
One question remained unanswered – until today – about “Flea,” the once-anonymous physician whose biting blogging about his ongoing medical malpractice case recently led to a Perry Mason moment at…
Jun 4, 2007 9:37 PM CDT
Litigation over some 4,800 autistic children allegedly injured as a result of being vaccinated could mean the end of much-needed programs to protect millions from potentially fatal diseases such as…
Jun 4, 2007 6:52 PM CDT
Jun 2, 2007 12:09 AM CDT
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