Alleging improper and delayed diagnosis of an immediately life-threatening condition, the Pennsylvania family of a young doctor has filed a medical malpractice suit in Luzerne County Court against Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center and Geisinger Health System. According to the complaint, as a result of... Read More

The tragic case of 13-year-old Jahi McMath, whose post-tonsillectomy hemorrhaging ended in several doctors declaring her brain-dead, has highlighted complex ethical issues caused by a decades-old California law. A few facts are clear.  In December 2013, doctors at Children’s Hospital Oakland removed Jahi’s tonsils and... Read More

Patients who have suffered medical emergencies can often attest to the many frustrations involved with emergency care, including long wait times, limited interaction with the doctor, and even medical misdiagnosis. Problems with the nation’s healthcare system have long formed the basis of emergency care malpractice... Read More

The parents of a girl who died just days after she suffered a forceps delivery birth injury at a Texas hospital plan to sue their obstetrician. Allen Coats and his fiancée Rachel Melancon plan to file a lawsuit against Dr. George T. Backardjiev, who delivered... Read More

In the state of Georgia, 82 percent of physicians practice “defensive medicine” at a cost of $14 billion a year, according to Republican Senator Brandon Beach of Fulton County’s District 21. His proposed bill – The Patient Compensation Act – would prevent patients and their... Read More

For Don McLaren, the end of the journey was bittersweet. A Rapid City, South Dakota jury awarded Mr. McLaren $776,000 in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Rapid City surgeon Wesley Sufficool. His wife, Karla, filed the lawsuit against Dr. Sufficool in 2011 after she was... Read More

A New York jury has awarded a single mother from Brooklyn $62 million after the woman lost both of her legs following what should have been a routine surgery. The plaintiff in the case, Stacey Galette, alleges she went to the hospital for the removal... Read More

Two nurses who worked at a Pennsylvania hospital were held liable for $32.8 million in damages by a jury in a cerebral palsy lawsuit filed on behalf of a girl who suffered brain injuries during her birth. The jury deliberated just nine hours before finding... Read More