Five medical malpractice cases pending in California settled this week for a sum of $1 million. The settlements arise out of improper patient care that occured at a Northern California kidney transplant center that has been at the center of a controversy revolving around a poor record of patient care.…
The Illinois Appellate Court, First District has extended damages in Wrongful Birth lawsuits to include the damages the victim will sustain after reaching the age of majority. This is a significant extension beyond the victim’s usual rights in these types of cases which were first recognized in Illinois in Siemieniec v. Lutheran…
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that the death of a 63 year old man who lived at the Burnham Terrace Nursing Home in Burnham, Illinois was a murder. Thomas Donavan later died at South Shore Hospital from multiple injuries suffered during the assault, hypertension and diabetes. Nursing Home Abuse and…
Glori Anne Scott of the Examiner.com wrote an excellent piece in support of the Colorado Legislature’s recent attempts to raise statutory caps on medical malpractice cases in that state. Her explanation applies to counter the arguments of tort reformers everywhere. While it will likely be a long and difficult battle to…
The Nevada Supreme Court has ordered litigants in medical malpractice cases to take steps to resolve those matters in order to decrease the court’s backlog. Two senior judges have been assigned in Clark County to conduct a settlement marathon in May in the hopes of resolving the 216 oldest cases…
A Cook County judge has recently permitted a lawsuit brought by a former University of Chicago student proceed on a medical malpractice theory that the U of C’s student medical center was negligent in not doing a “rape kit” after a student was assaulted, denying her the ability to secure…
Alex Parker of the Chi-Town Daily News is reporting that according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, the University of Chicago Medical Center is guilty of violating a federal law by not giving an elderly patient who later died adequate medical treatment. The University of Chicago’s own internal investigation…
The United States Department of Health And Human Services has offered the public some advice on how to protect themselves against unintended medical errors. According to the Department of Health and Human Services medical errors are one of the nations leading causes of death. Here are 20 tips to help…
The National Academy of Science is reporting that close to 100,000 people who die each year are the victim of preventable medical mistakes. A medical mistake can mean a doctor chose the wrong type of care in response to a medical problem or provided the correct type of care but carried it out incorrectly.…
Should an active member of the United States military be able to sue the United States Government for medical malpractice? The answer according to the United States Supreme Court in Feres v. The United States, 24 U.S. 135 (1950) is no. The Feres doctrine, as it is commonly know, prohibits an…