How to fairly and efficiently process and adjudicate medical malpractice suits is an issue all courts struggle with in the U.S.  One of those court systems is in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, home of historic Cape Cod.  This peninsula is also the home of 28 medical... Read More

A plaintiff recently filed a nursing home malpractice lawsuit in Mississippi, claiming negligence in administering medication safely led to his father’s untimely death. A dangerous combination of sedatives was given to the plaintiff’s father over a number of days, eventually leading to respiratory failure and... Read More

A birth injury lawsuit against Greater Hudson Valley Family Health Center and St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital filed by the mother and on behalf of the child, claim defendants, including two doctors and three nurses, committed birth injury malpractice resulting in injuries to the child and... Read More

Each year, thousands of parents who have eagerly awaited the births of their children are told that those infants have suffered birth injuries. Birth injuries may lead to permanent, debilitating disabilities. In some cases, they may even be fatal. One family has filed a birth... Read More

A U.S. district judge has struck down a ruling on a state law, stating it violates provisions of federal legislation designed to protect patient privacy. The ruling on this medical malpractice law could have implications for malpractice claims filed in the future, particularly since it... Read More

Most of the primary care malpractice claims filed in Massachusetts are related to alleged misdiagnoses, according to a new study led by Gordon D. Schiff, M.D. Co-authored by colleagues from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the report aimed to look at... Read More

A man accused of practicing medicine without proper qualifications has paid a fine and returned home to the Dominican Republic, according to a news report in the New York Post. Licensed in his home country but not in the United States, Hector Cabral offered cut-rate... Read More

A brachial plexus injury lawsuit alleging birth injury malpractice has gone to trial this September in Alabama, more than six years after an infant girl suffered permanent injuries during birth.  The baby was delivered in an emergency Cesarean section in September of 2007, and the... Read More