A woman from New York has filed a brachial plexus injury lawsuit, demanding compensatory damages from The Robert Packer Hospital, Guthrie Clinic, and several healthcare professionals. The lawsuit was filed on August 9, 2013 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.... Read More

A jury has awarded a former Lowell couple at least $5 million after finding Tufts Medical Center hospital staff negligent in their care of the couple’s newborn son in 2004. The child now suffers from a debilitating condition the parents allege could have been more... 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

Since 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has logged more than 200 adverse events associated with compounded medications produced by pharmacies across the country. USA Today reports that despite increasing incidents of pharmacy malpractice – from contaminated drugs to improper sterilization techniques –... Read More

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that sleep deprivation in surgeons doesn’t always result in more medical errors when performing gall bladder surgeries. One of the lead researchers, Danielle Nash, told Reuters that the study’s findings should prove... Read More

A U.S. army veteran and his wife were recently awarded $8.3 million dollars, after a federal judge found health care providers at John Cochran VA Medical Center were negligent in their duty to provide a proper standard of care. Dirk Askew, who was just 43 when he... Read More

A cancer misdiagnosis caused a single mother to become disfigured by radiation treatments that she never actually needed. Lessya Kotelevskaya was an impoverished single mother living in Kazakhstan, until a long-lost cousin from Louisville tracked her down last year. Kotelevskaya was barely able to open her... Read More