Cook County Jury Awards $101M In Birth Injury Case
A Cook County jury awarded $101M to mother Tequila Snow in a medical malpractice case against West Suburban Medical. Snow gave birth to a severely brain-damaged boy who is now
A Cook County jury awarded $101M to mother Tequila Snow in a medical malpractice case against West Suburban Medical. Snow gave birth to a severely brain-damaged boy who is now
The family of Alabama’s Auburn University student Hope Johnson was awarded $9M in a medical malpractice case naming emergency medicine physician Dr. Zenon Bednarski and Dr. David Randall Willis, DO.
While litigation and regulatory battles over the herbicide Roundup® continue, attention is now turning to other classes of agricultural agents including pesticides. One of these is chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate insecticide
Medical malpractice claims are a significant cost to doctors and health organizations, which is why several organizations analyze data for insights to help address these risks. Aon and The American
Claims of back and neck injury are common in litigation involving motor vehicle, slip and fall and other accidents. However, back and neck pain are pervasive problems in the general
Baltimore City Circuit Court judge Audrey S. Carrion denied Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s motion for a new trial after a jury awarded a record $299.6M judgment against the hospital
How are hospital administrators accountable in medical negligence cases? While physicians and nurses deliver healthcare directly to patients, the hospital’s leadership is responsible for implementing the policies and procedures that
The rules of evidence recognize that treating physicians may testify as fact witnesses and/or expert witnesses provided the parties make appropriate disclosures. As the doctor who examined a plaintiff before
In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report indicating that the total number of reported vector-borne disease cases involving ticks, mosquitoes, and fleas tripled between
Urology deals with the medical treatment of diseases of the urinary tract. Urologists are M.D.s who complete five years of specialty training during a postgraduate residency in urology. Those who
This year has seen increasing litigation against 3M by military veterans for injuries arising from the company’s Combat Arms Earplugs. Between 2003 and 2015, 3M (and its predecessor Aearo Technologies)
Earlier this year, the Center for Justice and Democracy at New York Law School took a comprehensive look at compensatory damages caps by state. Not surprisingly, while few states limit
The family of Sarah Crayton will receive a $2.6M settlement in the medical malpractice case against the University of Chicago Medical Center and cardiologist Dr. Mardi Gomberg-Maitland. Crayton died in
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of chemicals manufactured since the 1940s, have been getting significant attention in the last year. Just recently, Denmark became the first country to
Doctors, physician’s assistants, and nurse practitioners are all professionally obligated to order the appropriate tests to diagnose potentially fatal conditions like cancer in a timely way. In Doctors Kept Dismissing