U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle recently threw a major portion of Florida’s new medical malpractice statute out, claiming it conflicts with federal regulations in place to prevent improper disclosure of patients’ medical history. Florida Governor Rick Scott signed the medical malpractice law in June. The... 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

A woman who was first admitted to Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut for treatment of a urinary tract infection has now received one of the highest malpractice awards in the state. Barbara Lathan, a 72-year-old patient, was granted a $9.2 million hospital malpractice award by a jury, after... Read More

The cost of medical malpractice claims increased last year at the smallest rate in more than a decade, according to a joint study by Aon Risk Solutions and the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM). The study also predicts the frequency of medical malpractice... Read More

Glenn Weinburg just won a medical malpractice suit, in which he alleged that former cardiologist Dr. Mark Midei implanted several cardiac stents in his heart unnecessarily. The Baltimore News Journal reports that a county jury determined the ex-surgeon was liable for doctor negligence in the... Read More

Carol Nettle was the alleged victim of surgical negligence that occurred during an attempt to repair her left clavicle that had been severed in the 1990s. The purported surgical errors occurred when the doctor used sutures to hold a metal plate in place that was... Read More

An American doctor was awarded a record compensation last week in a medical negligence lawsuit in India. He hopes that the judgment will set precedents for higher monetary awards in the Indian court system, and help save lives by holding doctors accountable for their negligence.... Read More