The Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors has recently agreed to pay $198,000 to a woman who filed a lawsuit after going through an unnecessary mastectomy procedure believing that she had breast cancer.
The unidentified woman claims that Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center failed to re-examine her and review her biopsy specimen before she went through [...]
Medical institutions and health care providers must always put their patients at the top priority in order to avoid facing lawsuits that may eventually threaten their financial stability.
A jury has recently ordered Colonial Healthcare located in Auburn to pay $28 million in punitive damages and $1.1 million actual damages for the death of an [...]
Michael Jackson’s doctor became a celebrity himself after his negligent actions allegedly resulted to the star’s death.
Dr. Conrad Murray has been scheduled to return to court on April 5 for the date of the case’s preliminary hearing to be set. In this stage, the pieces of evidence that show the doctor’s “gross negligence” as the [...]
A paraplegic and his wife have recently been awarded by a Riverside jury a total of $16.5 million for a medical malpractice lawsuit they’ve filed against a neurosurgeon in South California.
But he won’t get it all. An existing California law limits a $3.75 million portion of the verdict to only $500,000.
Trent Hughes was involved in [...]