Medical Malpractice

If you are a practicing physician, practitioner or medical insurance provider, you no doubt are often in possession of patient information, medical records and billing invoices. In each of these fields, your expectations are to provide quality care and honest service....

A Michigan mother is suing St. Mary's Medical Center over the death of her newborn baby.Tanise Jackson says she was admitted to St. Mary's in early December for the labor and delivery of her daughter, Marvelle Mayo. During the delivery, she was given the drug Pitocin,...

A West Virigina couple is suing Wheeling Hospital, saying that the doctor's failure to diagnose a spinal injury resulted in paralysis.Johnny Taylor was injured while using a riding lawnmower in May of 2012. He was taken to Wheeling Hospital, where the doctors...

Medical malpractice can be complicated. When most people think of suing for medical malpractice, they think mostly of suing the doctor. However, doctors are not the only medical professionals who can be sued for malpractice. In order to understand who can be sued for...

A study by Emory University in the journal Qualitative Sociology found that most attorneys turn away most of the medical malpractice cases that come to them simply because they won't make them enough money. The study found this was true for about 75 percent of...

When you have a medical procedure or treatment, your doctor has a duty to fully inform you about the risks involved. A failure to fully inform you about risks can be medical malpractice. However, not all risks need to be disclosed to a patient. Because of this, it is...

Have you ever heard someone describe a horrible medical situation and wondered, "Why didn't they sue?" From negligence to defective medical devices to adverse side effects from medication, so much can go wrong if a doctor isn't giving you their full attention or isn't...

No patient wants to end up a victim of medical malpractice. Despite the medical industry's complaints of "frivolous lawsuits," when someone is injured, it's never frivolous.Some procedures leave you at greater risk for malpractice than others, and the outcomes can be...

The Federal Government has announced a plan to more aggressively prosecute worker safety violations by tying them to environmental crimes.David Uhlmann, a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and former head of the Justice Department's Environmental Crimes...

More than 90 percent of companies conduct criminal background checks, and many of these companies have strict criminal records policies designed to protect the company from negligent hiring lawsuits.However, while these polices may protect you from hiring liability,...