A Clay County lieutenant has been awarded $178 million after a jury ruled he was the victim of weight loss surgery malpractice. Clay Chandler was considered a likely heir apparent to Sheriff Rick Beseler, but now finds himself confined to a wheelchair after undergoing weight-loss... Read More

A 47-year-old veteran suffered severe burns after being left unattended at Carriage Hill Nursing and Rehab Center. A jury in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, recently awarded the family $1.45 million after agreeing with claims made in his medical negligence lawsuit. Joseph Roberts had checked into Carriage... Read More

Despite being awarded $15 million by a jury in their medical malpractice suit against St. Mary’s Medical Center and Dr. Mureena Turnquest-Wells, an Evansville, Indiana couple may only see only a small fraction of the judgment. According to Indiana law, medical malpractice judgments are capped... Read More

According to a state court’s medical malpractice insurance ruling, insurance Commissioner Michal Consedine must re-calculate assessments levied via the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (MCare) program on health care providers. The re-calculation involves a complete assessment for the three years from 2009 through... Read More

After suffering through eight grueling rounds of chemotherapy treatments for a disease she never had in the first place, Herlinda Garcia filed a cancer misdiagnosis lawsuit and was awarded $367,000 in damages. The 54-year-old Victoria, Texas resident was relieved when she found out she didn’t... Read More

In April 2008, 54-year-old West Shore resident Richard March went through hip replacement surgery at Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg Hospital. According to court documents filed in a subsequent wrongful death lawsuit, March returned to the hospital about three weeks later complaining of shortness of breath, weakness and... Read More

A California mother filed a birth injury lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, demanding compensatory damages on behalf of her minor child. Janice M. Exum, M.D., Exum Medical Corporation and Long Beach Memorial Medical Center are listed as defendants on the complaint, which was added... Read More