A Middlesex County jury has awarded $14 million to the family of a 90-year-old nursing home resident who died in 2008 after being taken to a Massachusetts hospital suffering from a variety of untreated ailments. Genevieve Calandro was taken to …
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that the risk of patient harm increased two-fold in 2006 – the peak year that teaching hospitals nationwide embraced the pursuit of minimally invasive robotic surgery for …
A Maine man who was awarded $200,000 by a jury in his malpractice suit filed after a doctor mistakenly told him he had an aggressive and fatal form of cancer won’t have to face another trial. The Maine Supreme Judicial …
Though the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on medical malpractice insurance remains a bit of a puzzle, three insurance experts pieced together likely effects at an insurance conference for actuaries in late-May in New York. Forecasting a coherent …
Former U.S. senator and Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards has returned to the courtroom to help represent a 4-year-old Virginia boy in a medical malpractice case. Edwards is one of three attorneys representing the parents and guardians of a boy …
The calls may come in the middle of the night and from hospitals more than an hour away. Someone is having a stroke and is en route an emergency room in the Florida Keys, but there aren’t any neurologists on …
Kentucky lawmakers are preparing for another debate on whether to shake up the state’s medical malpractice system, with some influential outside voices joining on both sides of the discussion. A new coalition of health care and business groups this week …
A jury has recently awarded an additional $18 million to a woman whose botched surgery at a Wenatchee, Wash., hospital left her unable to speak. The Wenatchee World reports that Becky S. Anderson was having polyps removed from her vocal …
A jury has awarded a Lowell, Mass., family at least $5 million after finding that medical professionals at Tufts Medical Center were negligent in caring for their newborn son in 2004. The family of Edward Xu alleged in their lawsuit …
A district court jury determined a former Medford, Ore., gynecologist is liable for more than $100,000 because he removed a patient’s healthy ovary and left a piece of plastic in her body after a 2007 robotic surgery. The Mail Tribune …