Wilmington Personal Injury Lawyer articles in category: Medical Malpractice

A Fulton County Georgia judge has struck down the cap on monetary awards in a medical malpractice case. If that decision is upheld on appeal it could undercut a major component of Georgia's tort...

A United States District Court Judge in Washington has ordered the Health and Human Services Department to turn over information about doctors from the Medicare claims database by September 21. The ruling came in a case filed by a consumer group that sued HHS seeking the release of information that had previously been considered private.Judge Emmet G. Sulllivan concluded that the release of the...

The parents of a boy sued a Pennsylvania doctor for medical malpractice arising from the death of their 4 year old son. The autistic boy died of cardiac arrest at the doctor's office after undergoing a procedure known as chelation therapy, a procedure designed to treat heavy metal poisining. The presence of Mercury has long been believed to be a cause of autism in children, and the procedure...

A Texas medical malpractice lawsuit filed by a woman who claims her surgery should have been put off was set to go to trial today. Patient Darlene Spears claims that she had an infection which should have caused her doctor to wait and perform surgery at a later date.Plaintiff was not a viable candidate for surgery and surgery should have been put off," the suit said. "Had surgery been put off...

A bill approved by the House, will limit the damage awards in some medical malpractice lawsuits at one million dollars.Last night, lawmakers voted 110 to three for the bill, which was supported by both lawyers and doctors.The North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers and the North Carolina Medical Society both supported the bill. The limitations apply to cases of negligence, but only to those that...