The Department of Veterans Affairs, which runs the network of hospitals that serves our nation’s veterans, has paid hundreds of millions of dollars for medical malpractice settlements over the last ten years, according to news reports.  Unlike in typical malpractice cases, however, in lawsuits against... Read More

Since 1990, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has logged more than 200 adverse events associated with compounded medications produced by pharmacies across the country. USA Today reports that despite increasing incidents of pharmacy malpractice – from contaminated drugs to improper sterilization techniques –... Read More

Human error is the most common cause of birth asphyxia (an inadequate supply of oxygen) at birth. That’s the finding of a 15-year study published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, a journal of the Nordic Federation of Societies of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Inadequate fetal monitoring,... Read More

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that sleep deprivation in surgeons doesn’t always result in more medical errors when performing gall bladder surgeries. One of the lead researchers, Danielle Nash, told Reuters that the study’s findings should prove... Read More

A U.S. army veteran and his wife were recently awarded $8.3 million dollars, after a federal judge found health care providers at John Cochran VA Medical Center were negligent in their duty to provide a proper standard of care. Dirk Askew, who was just 43 when he... Read More

A cancer misdiagnosis caused a single mother to become disfigured by radiation treatments that she never actually needed. Lessya Kotelevskaya was an impoverished single mother living in Kazakhstan, until a long-lost cousin from Louisville tracked her down last year. Kotelevskaya was barely able to open her... Read More

An Alabama man and his wife were awarded $6.7 million in a medical malpractice jury award. The lawsuit, which started a ten-year legal battle, was filed due to severe complications from hernia surgery that resulted in perforation of Thomas Jackson’s intestines. The perforation led to... Read More

Signatures are being collected for a proposed ballot initiative that would change the California medical malpractice law that caps awards for pain and suffering.   With the potential for higher pain and suffering awards, the initiative promises to pit trial attorneys against doctors. The ballot initiative... Read More