Hospital-Acquired Infection Claims and Infection Control Failures
Hospital-acquired infections are among the most preventable adverse events in healthcare, and when a facility's infection control failures…
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Medical Malpractice
MICRA, standard of care, expert practice
Anesthesia Malpractice: CRNA Supervision and Monitoring Failures
Anesthesia errors carry some of the highest malpractice exposure in medicine because the consequences of monitoring failures are immediate…
Delayed Cancer Diagnosis: Building the Standard-of-Care Record
When a physician fails to follow up on abnormal findings or refer to a specialist and the cancer advances to a harder-to-treat stage, the m…
Medical Malpractice Verdicts and California Lien Priority Shifts in Q2 2026
A Michigan federal jury awarded $307.5 million in April 2026 against a correctional healthcare company, one of the largest carceral medical…
Defeating the Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement
A daughter's signature on a stack of admission papers does not automatically send your elder-abuse case to arbitration. Formation defects,…
The Continuous Treatment Doctrine and Med-Mal Limitations
A client walks in years after the negligent act, seemingly time-barred, but kept seeing the same physician for the same condition the whole…
The EMTALA Claim: A Federal Path in ER Injury Cases
When an emergency-room case runs into certificate-of-merit and expert-affidavit hurdles, an EMTALA claim against the hospital can offer a p…
Two Schools of Thought: The Defense That Can End a Med-Mal Case
The two-schools-of-thought defense can concede the deviation and still defeat liability. What Jones v. Chidester actually requires, and the…
FDA Class I Recall of Abiomed Impella CP Exposes Cardiac Centers to Med-Mal Claims
The FDA's July 2, 2026 Class I recall of Abiomed Impella CP Sets with SmartAssist exposes cardiac centers to negligent-entrustment claims n…
Res Ipsa and the Retained-Object Never-Event Case
A sponge left inside a patient is the rare med-mal claim where the event speaks for itself. Here is how to keep res ipsa alive against the…
Negligent Credentialing and the Hospital's Own Files
Negligent credentialing reaches the hospital's own duty to vet the physicians it privileges, and it opens a file the defense fights to keep…
Enfamil NEC Bellwether Opens as Med-Mal Nuclear Verdicts Surge in 2026
The Enfamil NEC bellwether in MDL 3026, Inman v. Mead Johnson, commenced July 6, 2026 with 810 cases pending and a verdict that will set gl…