Last month, an Illinois jury recently awarded $1 million to the plaintiffs in a brachial plexus injury lawsuit. The defendant, a Maryville doctor, was accused of failing to perform a Cesarean section to avoid injury. The lawsuit alleges that the doctor should have recognized that the... Read More

Nursing home mistreatment is a serious and under-appreciated problem in the United States but the spotlight is usually on treatment by nursing home employees and other caregivers. A new study shifts the focus, however, and highlights the problem of mistreatment of nursing home residents by... Read More

This past election day, California voters rejected Proposition 46, an initiative which would have imposed mandatory drug tests on doctors and increased medical malpractice settlements. Proponents argued that Proposition 46 would protect the public; according to opponents, however, the reform would only benefit trial lawyers.... Read More

In recent decades, there has been a public outcry against the supposed rising medical costs due to defensive medicine. But the National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded a $2 million grant to George Washington University researcher Steven Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., to study the effects... Read More

According to Reuters, children medication errors are so common that they occurred about once every eight minutes from 2002 to 2012. The report, from the journal Pediatrics, was based on a study that examined calls to poison control hotlines. Unlike most earlier studies, the focus... Read More

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced that a major skilled nursing facility operator has entered into an unprecedented nursing home settlement. Extendicare Health Services Inc. and subsidiary Progressive Step Corporation have agreed to pay $38 million to settle claims of Medicare and Medicaid fraud... Read More

Robotic surgery was supposed to revolutionize the medical field but a recent robot surgery malpractice lawsuit illustrates that it is subject to the same types of medical errors as traditional surgery. The plaintiff, Heidi Carlson, underwent abdominal surgery at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Oregon... Read More

The Journal of the American Medical Association lists medical negligence as the country’s third leading cause of death. And according to a recent report by Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia is the Pennsylvania state hot spot when it comes to medical malpractice awards. But moves by the... Read More