Medical Malpractice Blog

There are hundreds of thousands of individuals, adults and children, living with cerebral palsy in the U.S. This condition often results from a lack of oxygen during birth or in the womb, but can also result from shaken baby syndrome,...

On July 31, 2012, the Supreme Court of Missouri handed a significant victory to plaintiffs seeking damages in medical malpractice cases. In Watts v. Lester E. Cox Medical Centers, the court ruled that Missouri’s statutory cap on non-economic damages was...

A jury in Baltimore awarded the family of Jaylan Norfleet $21 million after a trial alleging that the child’s severe cerebral palsy resulted from the failure of doctors at Harbor Hospital to perform an emergency Caesarean section in 2002. The...

Malpractice cases often hinge on the quality of the medical documentation related to the care of the plaintiff. Solid medical documentation shares several qualities. It is straightforward, consistent, in chronological order, and reasonably complete. If the doctors and nurses involved...

When gastric bypass surgery began to grow in popularity during the 1990s, it did not do so quietly. From 1990 to 2000, the annual rate of bariatric surgeries in the United States increased 600 percent, and has continued to rise....

When you are ill and you seek out the advice of a skilled healthcare professional, the last thing that you expect is to wind up worse off than before you sought medical treatment. But mistakes do happen and injuries do...

Most people admitted to a hospital find themselves overwhelmed by countless anxieties. But for most of us, suffering harm from robots while in the hospital is pretty low on that anxiety list. Maybe it should be higher. Many modern hospitals...

A report published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms what many of us have suspected for years: the American medical system performs far too many tests on its patients. But blame for the problem...

Most medical malpractice cases hinge on expert witness testimony. Most times there simply is no other way to prove negligence or fault on the part of a doctor. After all, the lawyers, the judge, and the members of the jury...

Risk is part of any medical procedure, and patients have the right to refuse certain treatments and procedures if they feel they are too risky. The concept, known as informed consent, gives doctors the legal responsibility to inform patients about...