When you walk into a hospital, you’re placing a huge amount of trust in the hands of people you’ve likely never met before.

Nursing homes under county or state control could see an explosion of lawsuits following a Thursday US Supreme Court ruling that maintains the right of nursing home residents and their survivors to ...

A nursing home defendant should only be required to answer Form C (personal injury) and Form C(3) (medical malpractice) interrogatories, and a maximum of 10 supplemental interrogatories, when a ...

Surgical complications left the husband partially paralyzed, requiring a cane to walk, and suffering from uncontrollable leg ...

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Medical malpractice claims cost the healthcare industry billions of dollars, but the costs include more than just dollars. Often there is accompanying damage to a hospital’s reputation and to staff ...

There are instances in which the participants in those medical procedures know what happened even if they do not specifically recall it. Courts and counsel need to be prepared to identify those ...

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A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion reportedly are refusing to end the pregnancies of women facing health-threatening ...

The family of a woman who died less than a week after giving birth at Abbott Northwestern Hospital has won a judgment exceeding $20 million in what the plaintiff's attorneys are calling the largest ...

St. Louis’ Blake and Sarah Anyan's story begins as a fairy tale. The high-school sweethearts were expecting their first baby. The couple chose Mercy Hospital — dubbed ‘The Baby Palace on Ballas’ — for ...