A jury recently awarded a New Paltz, New York couple $1.75 million in a surgical negligence case that ended in a series of surgeries to repair the damage caused by the malpractice. The lawsuit alleged that Nancy Nocito suffered life-altering injuries caused by medical malpractice... Read More

Testimony has begun in an appendectomy malpractice lawsuit filed against Dr. Andrew Hearn. The North Carolina-based doctor of Hearn Vascular Surgery and Carolina Vascular and Vein Specialists is being sued for failing to remove the plaintiff’s entire appendix in a 2009 surgery, after discovering his... Read More

A cancer misdiagnosis is costing Hawaii’s Straub Hospital $5.6 million dollars. Plaintiff Jeff Kim sued the hospital in a malpractice claim after doctors told the once active 43-year old that he didn’t have cancer, when in fact a tumor was slowly growing in the back... Read More

A new study reveals how crucial shift change communication can be to a patient’s hospital experience. Health care centers could cut the risk of serious adverse events by 30 percent and other medical errors by 25 percent with better shift change communication, according to Harvard... Read More

In a recent report, the Obama administration championed the efforts of public and private collaborations that have succeeded in significantly reducing hospital malpractice rates. The report indicated that, thanks to these efforts, about 50,000 lives are estimated to have been saved between 2011 and 2013.... Read More

The California Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of medical malpractice awards for pain and suffering. Currently, state law limits damages to a maximum of $250,000, under the 1975 Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act. In November, California residents voted on Proposition... Read More

A new bill put forward in the Ohio General Assembly would extend legal protection to physicians who admit to mistakes or take responsibility for them as part of private conversations with patients. The new Ohio medical malpractice bill would expand on a statute already on... Read More

A massive onslaught of funding contributed to the defeat of Proposition 46, a measure to lift the 1975 cap on some malpractice awards in California. Funding of nearly $60 million helped to finance opponents of the measure, which was rejected by two-thirds of voters on... Read More