Category: Medical Malpractice

Litigating a medical malpractice case against one party presents several challenges. Your attorney has to prove negligence and the healthcare provider involved with your claim committed at least one act of proven negligence. Many healthcare providers have the financial resources...

It is not the type of answer that most contestants on Jeopardy would get right. “The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US” might prompt contestants to ask questions such as “What is diabetes” or “What is a stroke.”...

Baby steps. That is what it takes to wrap your head around medical malpractice law. From confusing statutes to highly technical medical terms, understanding medical negligence can be difficult to do. Throw in the reputation that healthcare providers have for...

If you have suffered one or more injuries due to the negligence of a healthcare provider, California law gives you the right to seek damages for medical malpractice. Although the state has enacted some of the most victim-friendly statutes in...

Medical malpractice does not always happen inside an operating or emergency room. Although many acts of negligence are about medical procedures gone bad, other types of medical negligence involve more subtle actions. It doesn’t always have to be about a...

Making fun of surgeons on television is about as much as an American pastime as baseball and apple pie. Some of the jokes poke fun at actors playing surgeons that close a wound with a medical device or instrument inside...

They say the proof is in the pudding, but for medical malpractice cases, proof might as well be inside a magician’s hat. Here one minute, gone the next. Medical negligence lawsuits are notoriously hard to win because the plaintiff must...

Medical malpractice does not always happen in an emergency room, on an operating table, or at a rehabilitation center. Negligence can occur during diagnostic tests. Before a healthcare provider takes care of a patient, the healthcare provider might have already...

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Recent studies indicate around 250,000 Americans die each year because of a preventable error committed by a healthcare provider. The staggering number makes medical malpractice the third leading cause of death in the United States behind cancer and heart disease....