As reported in St. Louis Today, Jeffrey and Connie Schneider – both from Maryland Heights – were granted a $6.4 million award in a case involving medical malpractice. The lawsuit was brought against Dr. Joseph Thompson of the SSM DePaul Medical Group based on allegations... Read More

In April 2008, 54-year-old West Shore resident Richard March went through hip replacement surgery at Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg Hospital. According to court documents filed in a subsequent wrongful death lawsuit, March returned to the hospital about three weeks later complaining of shortness of breath, weakness and... Read More

A horrific tale of hospital negligence comes out of St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, New York. Colleen Burns, who had been pronounced dead, woke up in the operating room just as surgeons were poised with scalpels – ready to remove her organs for... Read More

Incidences of medical malpractice affect families every day. Medical malpractice may take the form of drug prescribing errors or a claim may involve an alleged failure to diagnose an illness, such as a cancer misdiagnosis. Researchers have recently evaluated thousands of documents in an attempt... Read More