The parents of a twelve year-old girl with cerebral palsy due to a brain injury at birth have tentatively reached a €2.6 million (about $3.55 million) settlement of their legal claims against the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE). The family, who lives in Ireland, contend... Read More

Nursing home neglect is a major problem nationwide as many facilities are understaffed and personnel are often poorly paid, untrained and unable to provide adequate care.  While it is not uncommon for a patient or a patient’s family member to file a nursing home abuse... Read More

About 48 million Americans don’t have health insurance, by one estimate.  One reason why is the high costs of premiums.  One of the drivers of those costs is that many of us using the health care system use it too much, receiving unnecessary tests and... Read More

A hospital negligence lawsuit has been filed on behalf of a 21-year-old man who reportedly suffered catastrophic brain damage after a misdiagnosis.  The injured victim of the alleged malpractice, Arcadio Hernandez, is seeking compensation for his losses. He may require a lifetime of medical care... Read More

Parents who claimed that medical malpractice led to their daughter’s cerebral palsy agreed to a brain damage settlement of $4.25 million last week. Thomas and Athena Bulger of Auburn, Massachusetts, sued Dr. Robert Berry and two other doctors due to problems during the delivery at... Read More

The estate of a 47-year-old nurse nurse won a $2.4 million medical malpractice verdict from a Williamson County, Illinois, jury on November 18.   The death of Ramona “Sue” Yates was reportedly related a bowel obstruction she suffered two years after having gastric bypass surgery. She... Read More

The Department of Veterans Affairs, which runs the network of hospitals that serves our nation’s veterans, has paid hundreds of millions of dollars for medical malpractice settlements over the last ten years, according to news reports.  Unlike in typical malpractice cases, however, in lawsuits against... Read More

Human error is the most common cause of birth asphyxia (an inadequate supply of oxygen) at birth. That’s the finding of a 15-year study published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, a journal of the Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Inadequate fetal monitoring,... Read More