On May 11, 2017, Melissa Rivers settled a medical malpractice lawsuit that she had filed against the clinic that had performed a surgical procedure that allegedly resulted in the death of her [...]
On May 8, 2017, a judge in the Cook County Circuit Court awarded over $23.1 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit brought by the family of a 5-year-old girl suffering ongoing health problems [...]
In the midst of the internationally known Ebola scare, a Texas hospital sent a Liberian patient home with infection like symptoms, with no testing, after learning he had just come from disease [...]
Stanford researchers have found that a mere one percent of physicians are associated with one-third of paid malpractice claims in the U.S. Researchers analyzed over 66,000 paid medical [...]
Goldberg Weisman Cairo partner Lawrence Ruder won a $2.85 million settlement in a medical malpractice case against a major north suburban Lake County, Illinois hospital. The settlement, on behalf [...]
A recent study revealed that medication errors occur in half of all surgical procedures at the nations top hospitals, putting patients lives at risk. A third of drug errors observed in the study [...]
If you or a loved one has been harmed by a vaccine, you could be entitled to compensation that will help you bear the burden of the physical, emotional and financial harm you endured. If you or [...]
One of the leading causes of medical malpractice incidents throughout Illinois is unnecessary surgeries. Some studies have shown that up to 20 percent of all medical procedures are unnecessary, [...]
A recent report in Forbes Magazine has renewed the debate regarding medical malpractice reform in the United States. The amount of time that a physician spends with open malpractice claims varies [...]
A recent article in the Los Angeles Times is one of the many reports this year to focus on “never events” – medical errors that are so negligent and reckless that they should [...]
