Medical Malpractice

A 45-year-old man sued his doctor after he suffered a severe reaction to the drug gadolinium. The jury is currently deliberating and will need to decide whether or not the man’s doctor reacted quickly enough to the allergic reaction. The question being put to jurors is: Did the doctor’s actions fall below the prevailing standard […]

Due to concerns over the coronavirus, a number of things are being done virtually. As such, many patients are turning to telemedicine as a safe method of communicating medical symptoms and concerns to healthcare providers. One such patient was a 62-year-old obese man who recently used a telemedicine service to report increased swelling after having […]

An American missionary who operated a charitable center for severely malnourished children despite having no medical training has recently settled a lawsuit brought in Ugandan civil court after one-hundred five (105) children died while under her care. Several parents who lost children joined a lawsuit against the missionary. The mission will be forced to pay […]

States like New York, New Jersey, and Michigan have passed legislation that bars COVID-19-related medical malpractice suits. One exclusion to the rule is that cases of “gross negligence” are still permitted to go forward. But what really constitutes “gross negligence” in a medical malpractice case. Indeed, the behavior needs to be so outrageous that it […]

The attorney grievance commission recently accused a Maryland lawyer of attempting to extort $50 million from the University of Maryland Medical System. This same attorney had settled two prior lawsuits against the University of Maryland’s transplant division. According to the commission, this same lawyer promised not to reveal problems that the University of Maryland was […]