After losing a baby because of an incompetent cervix, Patricia Votre thought she was well prepared when she got pregnant again. She made arrangements with her doctors to consult with high-risk pregnancy experts from Yale University and to have the …
Wrongful death lawsuits have been filed in Nevada state court against a Colombian couple convicted of causing a 42-year-old Las Vegas woman’s death in a botched buttocks enhancement procedure in the back room of a tile store. A lawsuit filed …
A nurse with a prior felony conviction for forging prescriptions dilutes morphine solutions for five Halstead, Kan., nursing home patients. Another nurse convicted of stealing drugs from patients at an Emporia home gets another job in Topeka, where she adds …
A medical malpractice claim alleging lack of informed consent requires expert medical testimony to establish harm, Ohio’s high court has ruled. In a case arising from a medical malpractice suit filed by Robert and Mary White against Dr. Warren Leimbach …
A medical malpractice insurance specialty group headquartered in Missouri has promoted Joseph B. Moody to president and CEO. Healthcare Services Association (HSA) appointed Moody to lead HSA and Healthcare Services Group (HSG), its wholly owned management company subsidiary, effective Jan. …
An Iowa man who had been awarded $10.6 million in malpractice case won’t see any of that money. The Des Moines Register reports that court precedent set while the case was awaiting its second trial prevents Dennis Cawthorn from citing …
Four Louisiana physicians wrote hundreds of bogus prescriptions that powered multimillion-dollar health-care frauds in the Baton Rouge area, according to evidence amassed by the nearly two-year-old local Medicare Fraud Strike Force. Yet all four physicians remain licensed to practice medicine, …
New York courts specializing in the state’s 4,000 medical malpractice cases filed each year have begun expanding following the success of a Bronx judge in settling cases early. The approach, shown to cut court backlogs and save money, has been …
The U.S. government reopened public access to a database of malpractice claims and damages paid by doctors, with new restrictions that would prohibit using it in any way to identify the physicians. Consumer advocates and journalism groups for the past …
Midwestern medical liability insurance company MMIC Group, Inc. has introduced Cyber Solutions, which provides coverage for data breaches, invasions of privacy and other risks to the information technology systems of physicians and hospitals. Cyber Solutions will be available effective Jan. …
