Spine Surgery Malpractice Verdicts Top $48.7M in 2026 as Lien Rules Hold
Spine surgery malpractice verdicts and settlements topped $48.7 million across at least 12 U.S. cases in 2026, led by a $108 million Jeffer…
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Medical Malpractice
MICRA, standard of care, expert practice
Negligent Credentialing and Corporate Negligence: Reaching the Hospital Through Peer Review Walls
Claims that a hospital granted privileges to an unfit physician are among the hardest med-mal theories to prove, because peer review statut…
Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis: Building the Delayed-Diagnosis Malpractice Case
Meningitis in infants and children presents with vague symptoms, and the injury turns on hours. A guide to standard-of-care theories, the a…
Retained Surgical Items: Building the Count-Protocol Malpractice Case
Retained sponges and instruments are classed as never events, yet defendants still contest negligence. Here is how to use count records, im…
Acute Compartment Syndrome: Building the Med-Mal Case When Hours Define the Outcome
Acute compartment syndrome gives treating providers a narrow window before muscle and nerve damage becomes permanent. When that window clos…
Telehealth Malpractice Standard of Care Faces Test After $84M Verdict
A Hennepin County jury's $84 million verdict against M Health Fairview, Minnesota's largest malpractice award on record, anchors this week'…
Ectopic Pregnancy Misdiagnosis: Building the Standard-of-Care Case From Beta-hCG to Rupture
An undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy ruptures and kills in hours. The standard of care for diagnosing it in the emergency department is specifi…
Aortic Dissection Misdiagnosis in the Emergency Department: Building the Med-Mal Case
Emergency physicians correctly suspect aortic dissection in fewer than 40 percent of presentations. The missed diagnosis is nearly always f…
Fairview's $84M Telehealth Malpractice Verdict Reshapes Chest-Pain Liability
An $84 million Hennepin County verdict against Fairview Health Services turns telehealth chest-pain follow-up into proven nine-figure expos…
Informed Consent Claims in Medical Malpractice: Materiality, Causation, and the Consent Form Defense
An informed consent claim in a medical malpractice case is a separate and distinct theory from negligent treatment, with its own proof elem…
Sepsis Misdiagnosis and Delayed Treatment: Building the Standard-of-Care Case
Sepsis kills more Americans each year than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and AIDS combined, and a significant proportion of those deaths…
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Misdiagnosis: Building the SAH Med-Mal Case
Subarachnoid hemorrhage carries a 40 percent mortality rate, yet emergency departments miss it in up to 12 percent of initial presentations…