Most firms, particularly those with 50 or more lawyers, buy malpractice insurance, says Anne Marie Davine, who leads the US law-firm practice at insurance broker Marsh. The biggest firms are taking out multimillion-dollar policies, ...

Devastated by what she saw in the mirror, the 44-year-old attorney, who had often defended physicians in malpractice cases, sued Carney over the 2007 incident and urged the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice to take action against him.

A judge dismissed her lawsuit based on a technicality added to the state's medical malpractice law in 2005 as part of the national “tort reform� debate. It requires plaintiffs in all malpractice cases to get an opinion from a medical expert backing up ...

BY JON VANDERLAAN A “dinner-plate-sized� ulcer that may have led to a 65-year-old woman's death is the cause of a new lawsuit against Odessa Regional Medical Center. The suit, which accuses ORMC of negligence leading to Faith Bickle's wrongful death, ...

By Harvey Rice, Houston Chronicle GALVESTON — Galveston County Court-at-Law Judge Christopher Dupuy was fined $7500 Thursday for improperly trying to remove the judge overseeing a malpractice lawsuit against him. The sanction is the latest in a series ...

By MARK I. JOHNSON, Staff writer A year after a judge threw out a merger for Bert Fish Medical Center, the Southeast Volusia Hospital District has filed a lawsuit claiming legal malpractice against their former attorney and his law firm.

On the campaign trail, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he will push to limit payments to victims in medical malpractice lawsuits, which he blames for unnecessarily driving up health-care costs. And over the course of his two decades in ...

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In one recent iteration of this battle, in 2009, it was reported that Congressional Republicans refused to go along because doing so it would allow more malpractice cases to get to trial, a goal many of those very same Republicans find contrary to ...

For cases involving medical malpractice, state law caps non-economic damage awards, such as pain and suffering, disability and disfigurement, at $500000. Punitive damages are a separate category of damages that a jury can award if it finds that the ...

HAMMOND, Ind. — A former nose surgeon from northwestern Indiana accused of billing insurers and patients for procedures he didn't perform is suing his malpractice insurance company, claiming it failed to properly defend him in hundreds of civil cases.

Hospital advocates again this year are pushing for medical malpractice liability reform at the state level to lower exorbitant malpractice insurance premiums and limit health care providers' exposure to malpractice lawsuits and monetary damages.