United States Senator Barbara Boxer supports raising the California medical malpractice awards cap. “I will never forget meeting a child who was severely disfigured and forever confined to a wheelchair because of medical malpractice,” she told Reuters. The initiative – The Troy and Alana Pack... Read More

840,000 residents have signed on to support a ballot initiative to increase the California medical malpractice award caps. Under state law, 505,000 signatures are required. Current caps for malpractice awards are $250,000. The initiative, which will be put on the November ballot, will increase the... Read More

Lance Weinrib died in April 2013 without knowing he had cancer because medical facilities in Long Island failed to communicate his condition, a lawsuit filed for hospital negligence alleges. Mr. Weinrib – a deaf man – was allegedly not given access to an interpreter prior... Read More

The parents of a girl who died just days after she suffered a forceps delivery birth injury at a Texas hospital plan to sue their obstetrician. Allen Coats and his fiancée Rachel Melancon plan to file a lawsuit against Dr. George T. Backardjiev, who delivered... Read More

Two nurses who worked at a Pennsylvania hospital were held liable for $32.8 million in damages by a jury in a cerebral palsy lawsuit filed on behalf of a girl who suffered brain injuries during her birth. The jury deliberated just nine hours before finding... Read More

A FDA Tylenol warning has been issued, asking doctors to stop prescribing high-dose acetaminophen prescription drugs. Taking too much acetaminophen may increase a person’s risks of liver damage. The federal agency asked doctors to stop prescribing combination medications, such as oxycodone (Percocet), hydrocodone (Vicodin) and... Read More

Hospices perform a vital service.  They help care for dying patients.  Care that family members aren’t capable of performing, for people who don’t want to spend their last days in a hospital. But that ideal is being twisted by some hospices that are profiting from... Read More

The family of a girl who suffered brain damage as a result of a fluid overdose shortly after her birth will receive a $7 million medical malpractice settlement from a Naperville, Illinois hospital, the family’s attorney announced last month. The hospital negligence claim was sparked... Read More