Medical Malpractice Blog

Today, people like to do their research before they buy goods or services. For instance, they go online to sites like Edmunds and read reviews about a certain car they want to purchase, or they check out a site like...

For decades, people have sprayed Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer on their lawns and gardens – without having idea that the product’s active ingredient, glyphosate, could be causing deadly harm to them. Today, many of those people suffer from cancer which...

A California state court jury recently awarded a $12 million verdict to a woman who claimed that she developed mesothelioma from her use of Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive talcum powder products, ending the first joint trial involving the two...

When you visit your doctor or go to the hospital, you have a reasonable expectation that your doctor will treat you with a high degree of care. Unfortunately, doctors are often overworked, have little time to devote to personalized patient...

Your medical care can go wrong in a hospital. Instead of getting better, you may instead suffer harm due to a doctor’s negligence. If this occurs, you may be eligible to sue the hospital for medical malpractice. This may be...

You may have heard that the government cannot be sued. This is simply not true. The misconception may come from the doctrine of sovereign immunity, which harkens back to our nation’s English origins and which survived for centuries. That all...

In January 2019, an Iowa jury awarded more than $14.5 million to parents who claimed that their medical care providers’ failure to warn them about their child’s fetal abnormalities prevented them from making an informed choice on whether to go...

The law limits how long a person has to file a lawsuit. It is called the “statute of limitations.” The purpose of the law is to give certainty. A person should not go through life worrying that he or she...

Medical errors frequently occur in our country’s health care industry. However, not all medical errors are acts of medical malpractice. The distinction lies in whether the medical professional who made the error failed to treat a patient in accordance with...

When a doctor or other medical professional commits malpractice that harms a patient, the injured patient should explore all of his or her legal options. If the malpractice caused a patient’s death, the patient’s surviving family members should learn about...