Medical Malpractice Blog

Most of the time when you seek out medical advice and treatment, things go well. Unfortunately, sometimes a procedure does not go as planned and medical malpractice occurs. Patients can be misdiagnosed, medications can be given to the wrong patient...

Brachial plexus palsy, also called Erb’s palsy, is a disorder with a broad array of debilitating symptoms. Impairment can range from as little as one of the five main nerves that serve the brachial plexus to full paralysis of the...

A typical medical malpractice claim usually involves the following steps: Investigation of the claim. It is not always clear what caused the injury and how the malpractice occurred. A determination of which party or parties to sue can take time....

Some of the reasons why an attorney will not take a medical malpractice case include the following: There is no credible expert to show that malpractice caused your injury, or that there was malpractice at all. Expert evidence is key...

Winning a medical malpractice case takes a specific set of skills and experience. Verdicts in medical malpractice cases are often large and doctors, hospitals, and their insurers are going to fight tooth and nail to avoid losing a medical malpractice...

When a physician, surgeon, nurse, or other health care provider is negligent—that is, fails to meet a satisfactory standard of patient care—and his or her patient suffers injury, illness, or another condition as a result, grounds for a medical malpractice...

Childbirth is a natural and miraculous event, but not every labor and delivery is the same. Some women have uneventful deliveries and healthy babies, while others have difficult experiences. In that helpless condition, the mom-to-be has to trust the doctors...

Top reasons for malpractice lawsuits against obstetricians In a recent survey of more than 800 obstetrical medical malpractice cases over five years, the data showed that parents are most likely to file malpractice claims against an obstetrician (OB) citing one...

Maryland and Washington, DC are among the jurisdictions that operate under the Collateral Source Rule. The rule applies to situations where the plaintiff in a personal injury case receives compensation from third-party sources for injuries caused in an accident, medical...

Enacted in the 1940s, The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) provides the legal mechanism for compensating people who suffered personal injuries as a result of negligence or wrongful actions by United States government employees. This statute removed the power of...