Medical Malpractice

Connecticut’s Department of Corrections has a major problem. The state agency, which just paid out $1.3 million in a settlement to a former prisoner whose

Republican legislators in the US House of Representatives have taken two steps closer to their long-standing goal of restricting the civil justice system, the Washington Post reports.

Lawmakers on both the state and federal level are moving quickly to clamp down on medical malpractice claims, putting their weight behind controversial “tort reform” measures

In an attempt to discourage frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits, most states have made it harder for patients to sue healthcare providers than it would be

Laws that allow doctors to apologize for medical mistakes without the risk of increasing their legal liability do not lower the number of medical malpractice

Why do doctors make mistakes? As researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found, over 250,000 deaths in the United States can be attributed to medical errors every

Spurred by President-elect Donald Trump’s emphatic rejection of Obamacare, key Republican policy makers have begun to push for sweeping healthcare reforms. Beyond repealing and replacing

A birth injury, as defined by the Merck Manual, is any damage sustained by an infant during the childbirth process. The category includes a wide variety of

Radiologists are a crucial part of nearly every medical team, responsible for diagnosing and treating health conditions through the use of imaging technologies like computed

Abubaker Atiq Durrani, a well-regarded spinal surgeon in Cincinnati, is now facing nearly 500 medical malpractice lawsuits, along with a federal indictment over charging Medicare