A series of alleged surgical errors during a routine operation left Sarah E. Gilbert paralyzed from the chest down. The Goochland County woman suffered from scoliosis, and in 2004 went to Chippenham Hospital for a low-risk surgery that would hopefully end her days in a... Read More

Every year, 9,200 to 23,000 Canadians die as a result of preventable hospital adverse events. About 34% of these events involve surgery errors. Now a doctor at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto is attempting to change all of that with a ground-breaking invention that could... Read More

Each year, thousands of parents who have eagerly awaited the births of their children are told that those infants have suffered birth injuries. Birth injuries may lead to permanent, debilitating disabilities. In some cases, they may even be fatal. One family has filed a birth... Read More

After suffering a miscarriage caused by a prescription medication mix-up, Florida resident Remee Jo Lee is suing a Tampa-based pharmacy. According to a recent article published in Charisma News, the woman’s pharmacy malpractice lawsuit hinges on a faked label that was produced by an unidentified... Read More

A U.S. district judge has struck down a ruling on a state law, stating it violates provisions of federal legislation designed to protect patient privacy. The ruling on this medical malpractice law could have implications for malpractice claims filed in the future, particularly since it... Read More

Most of the primary care malpractice claims filed in Massachusetts are related to alleged misdiagnoses, according to a new study led by Gordon D. Schiff, M.D. Co-authored by colleagues from the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the report aimed to look at... Read More

A man accused of practicing medicine without proper qualifications has paid a fine and returned home to the Dominican Republic, according to a news report in the New York Post. Licensed in his home country but not in the United States, Hector Cabral offered cut-rate... Read More

A recent review of U.S. cardiac malpractice litigation slated to be published in the American Journal of Cardiology shows that only a small fraction of medical malpractice lawsuits related to interventional cardiology end with judgments in favor of the claimants. Furthermore, the study revealed that cardiac... Read More