A decision issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in May stipulates that all medical malpractice claims including demands for payment in writing be logged into the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), even when they are settled out of court. The... Read More

An Alabama man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit, alleging his routine circumcision resulted in accidental amputation of his penis. The lawsuit claims the patient was never advised that his procedure could lead to castration. However, when the patient awoke from his procedure, he learned... Read More

In what has been called the largest jury verdict concerning a case of nursing home neglect in Massachusetts during the last decade, the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit have been ordered to pay $14 million to the family of Genevieve Calandro. Calandro was a... Read More

New research published in the medical Journal of Pediatric Surgery indicates that children undergoing ER treatment on the weekends are likely to face an increased risk of incurring serious and life-threatening complications. Known in the medical community as the “weekend effect,” this higher propensity for... Read More

In a recent cancer misdiagnosis lawsuit, a Coldwater, Ohio woman is accusing two doctors and their employers of medical negligence and malpractice in failing to identify and treat in a reasonably timely manner a tumor in her knee that within months had spread to her lungs.... Read More

A series of medical mistakes and missteps lead to the untimely death of Eric Rice’s daughter some 15 years ago. The Wisconsin resident, however, was unable to hold the negligent doctors accountable for their actions due to a medical malpractice loophole that precludes the filing... Read More

In their investigation of a possible rape of a patient at a Daytona Beach nursing home, the local police department claims that the facility has slowed their ability to conduct interviews in order to gather information and locate possible suspects. Daytona Beach Health and Rehabilitation... Read More

In a disturbing case of patient privacy violations, Johns Hopkins Hospital recently announced that it would pay a $190 million medical malpractice settlement to victims of Dr. Nikita A. Levy. Formerly a gynecologist and obstetrician at Johns Hopkins Community Medicine, Dr. Levy was found to... Read More