An Ohio family has sued the University of Toledo Medical Center, saying that the hospital “botched” the planned transplant of a kidney donated by one sibling to another sibling by…
The adoptive parents of a baby born with both male and female genitalia claim the state of South Carolina violated their child’s constitutional rights by subjecting the child to sex-reassignment…
North Carolina can’t obtain one-third of a girl’s medical malpractice settlement under a law that doesn’t take into account whether the money is attributable to medical care, the U.S. Supreme…
Corrected: The widow of a man massacred last year, with nearly a dozen others, in a July 20 shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater showing the new Batman movie…
A Georgia jury is holding a physician and his medical group accountable for the death of a 31-year-old man who suffered heart failure while engaging in a threesome with his…
A Kentucky woman sued a Lexington dentist on Thursday, contending that she reflexively swallowed a small implant screwdriver he dropped in her mouth during a routine treatment and it had…
The ABA has sent a letter to the members of the U.S. House of Representatives objecting to “troubling tort reform language” in a bill regulating medical malpractice suits.
A defense lawyer in a medical malpractice trial who complained the plaintiff was “working the system” has lost an appeal that targeted the counsel’s comments.
The Utah Supreme Court has ruled that physicians have a duty to their patients’ family members in a case brought on behalf of the children of a confessed murderer.
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