An Alabama man and his wife were awarded $6.7 million in a medical malpractice jury award. The lawsuit, which started a ten-year legal battle, was filed due to severe complications from hernia surgery that resulted in perforation of Thomas Jackson’s intestines. The perforation led to... Read More

Signatures are being collected for a proposed ballot initiative that would change the California medical malpractice law that caps awards for pain and suffering.   With the potential for higher pain and suffering awards, the initiative promises to pit trial attorneys against doctors. The ballot initiative... Read More

Jurors ruled last month that a hospital should pay a total of $2.4 million to three women who were sexually abused by an anesthesiologist while they were sedated. The women sued Mid-Columbia Medical Center in Columbia Gorge, Oregon, and two hospital executives, claiming that hospital... Read More

Parties came to an agreement late last month in what amounts to the largest birth injury malpractice settlement ever involving the University of California Regents. The out-of-court settlement gives $9 million to the parents of a toddler who suffered permanent brain damage as a result... Read More

A Kentucky-based emergency services company has been denied a retrial after a recent medical malpractice verdict resulted in a $6 million judgement for a couple from Carter County whose baby boy died in hospital. Judge C. David Hagerman denied the motion filed by attorneys representing... Read More