Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice occurs when a health or medical professional violates or neglects the standards of care while attending to a patient. As a victim of medical malpractice, the law entitles you to financial compensation that could cover everything from wrongful...

Medical mistakes happen more frequently than you may think. In fact, when you combine surgical errors with prescription mistakes, inappropriate treatments, and misdiagnosis incidents, medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the United States. That is the...

Depending on where you get your information, medical malpractice in hospitals in the United States is responsible for between 98,000 and 440,000 deaths annually. If you need to stay in a hospital, your choice might literally mean the difference between...

Every day in the United States, people seeking medical treatment are injured by health care providers who are careless or negligent. Some of these injuries are catastrophic leading to temporary or permanent disability or even wrongful death. Medical doctors, chiropractors,...

Compensation for patients with ASR™ hip systems On November 19, 2013, DePuy Orthopaedics division of Johnson & Johnson and a court-appointed committee of lawyers representing plaintiffs with the DePuy ASR (Articular Surface Replacement) system announced a $2.5 billion settlement agreement....

On April 22, 2009, Stephen Schmitz, Jr., age 31 father of one, went to the Emergency Room at Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Center in Evergreen Park, Illinois, with complaints of severe back pain and profound weakness...