Medical Malpractice Blog

Ira Weiss was a 62-year old professor of economics in New York when he suffered a stroke. His family found him passed out on the floor and took him to the hospital immediately. They alleged in a recent lawsuit that...

One of the most important doctors is one who you may never meet: the radiologist. A radiologist uses imaging technology, including x-rays, CT scans, MRIs, and mammograms to detect, diagnose, and treat illnesses. Though radiologists are crucial to diagnosis and...

When people normally think of malpractice, they think of botched surgeries, failure to diagnose illness, medication errors and other failures of doctors that relate to the way treatment itself is delivered. A recent case, however, highlights another area of malpractice,...

You go to a hospital to get better. Thankfully, this is usually the case. But sometimes, the hospital stay and the treatment there can itself be the source of a painful, and even deadly condition. A recent report from the...

Every year in the United States, 98,000 people die from medical errors. And while every medical procedure has an inherent level of risk — for example, even when everyone involved does everything absolutely right, some surgeries will result in infection...

When a person is injured, they have different grounds for damages. Generally, these are broken into specific damages and general damages. Specific damages are those that are measurable, like loss of income and expenses incurred. General damages are harder to...

In personal injury cases, plaintiffs often have a choice as to where to file their complaint against the defendant. This occurs most often when the plaintiff resides in a different state from all of the defendants. In such cases, plaintiffs...

In 2000, Sandra and William Earl Armstrong gave birth to a baby girl. Delivered by caesarean section the baby was injured during birth, leaving her legally deaf and blind. She cannot sit, walk, crawl or talk. She suffers from mental...

It is estimated that nearly 20% of nursing home patients given psychoactive drugs do not have a mental condition that warrants the treatment. These drugs are used as a restraint rather than a treatment. Since 1987, The Nursing Home Reform...

This past year has seen an outbreak of meningitis that has spread nationwide. The meningitis was connected to tainted steroids produced at a Framingham drug compounding pharmacy and have led to many lawsuits accusing pharmacy malpractice, general negligence, breach of...