A birth injury malpractice lawsuit has been filed by a Pittsburg mother whose child suffered brain damage as a result of deprivation of oxygen during the birthing process. The mother’s labor was allowed to continue for 27 hours despite concerns about shoulder dystocia (the child... Read More

Florida resident Patricia Lancaster sought medical attention from Orange Park Medical Center for a life-threatening blockage of her intestines. In what was to be a routine procedure to remove built-up scar tissue in her GI tract, the patient was unwittingly subject to an off-label procedure,... Read More

An Ohio woman has reached a settlement with the University of Cincinnati, six years after filing her medical negligence lawsuit in the Court of Claims of Ohio. While the university has not admitted fault for the permanent injuries she sustained, Cynthia A. Adae will be... Read More

Trained medical technician Stacey Galette thought she was undergoing a routine procedure to remove an ectopic pregnancy at Long Island’s Winthrop University Hospital in 2009. Instead, she spent 73 days in the intensive care unit with blood poisoning and gangrene, went into cardiac arrest three... Read More

A West Virginia woman has filed a lawsuit in Kanawha Circuit Court claiming that hospital negligence led to the amputation of her right leg. The complaint arises from allegations of failure to accurately diagnose, care, advise and observe her medical condition. She seeks to hold... Read More

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved of a $7.5 million birth injury settlement to a toddler who was born with a brain injury at a county run hospital.  The settlement is for a birth injury lawsuit filed on behalf of an 18-month... Read More

About a third of all cardiac stents implanted in patients are unnecessary, says cardiologist David Brown of Stony Brook University School of Medicine. That amounts to more than 200,000 stents a year, and controversy surrounding this practice has spurred nationwide litigation and a federal investigation... 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