Neglect Has Hastened Patient Deaths at Montana Psychiatric Hospital, Lawsuit Says November 3, 2023 By Amy Beth Hanson Montana’s state psychiatric hospital has been so poorly run for decades that patients are unsafe and not treated with dignity...
Former Medical Resident At Mayo Clinic in Minnesota Charged With Poisoning His Wife October 27, 2023 By Trisha Ahmed A poison specialist and former medical resident at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a...
Virginia Judge Says Medical Malpractice Law Does Not Apply to Sexual Abuse Claims August 23, 2023 By Sarah Rankin Most of the claims of sexual abuse and other mistreatment made in a lawsuit by dozens of former patients of...
Report: Medical Professional Liability Headwinds Continue Despite Improvement in 2022 June 2, 2023 A recent report by the Medical Professional Liability Association shows the medical professional liability insurance sector’s combined ratio improved from...
Special Report: How U.S. Doctors Buy Their Way Out of Trouble May 24, 2023 By Michael Berens When federal enforcers alleged in 2015 that New York surgeon Feng Qin had performed scores of medically unnecessary cardiac procedures...
Ill. Supreme Ct. Clarifies Standard to Name Defendants in Malpractice Suits May 22, 2023 By Jim Sams More than 40 years ago, the Illinois legislature sought to reduce the number of defendants in medical malpractice actions by...
Fla. Appeals Court Upholds Lawyer’s $104,000 Fine for Sabotaging Med Mal Trial May 17, 2023 By William Rabb An attorney with one of Florida’s largest insurance defense firms must pay more than $100,000 in sanctions after deliberately trying...
Pennsylvania Hospital Wins Second Shot at Equitable Relief in Medical Malpractice Case April 26, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson A federal appeals court is giving a Pennsylvania hospital another opportunity to have $1.75 million of its medical malpractice insurance...
Ohio Doctor Acquitted in 14 Patient Deaths Sues Health System April 19, 2023 DETROIT (AP) – An Ohio doctor acquitted in the deaths of 14 patients who died after they were given painkillers...
Florida Officials Cut Key Data from Vaccine Study, Report Finds April 10, 2023 An analysis that was the basis of a highly criticized recommendation from Florida’s surgeon general cautioning young men against getting...