The Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Blog

The Problem with Overdiagnosis

Two new studies published this past Monday in the BMJ highlight…

Good News for Patient Safety

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have decided to…

Medical Errors Are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the US

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published a report that 98,000…

Is Joan Rivers’ Death a Medical Malpractice Case?

A few days after Joan Rivers' death, there are rumblings in the…

Small Military Hospitals Posing a Health Risk to Patients

According to a front page article in the NY Times, the forty…

Why the Controversy over Surgical Black Boxes?

Canadian researchers have invented a surgical "black box" that…

Why the Federal Government Stopped Reporting Certain Medical Errors

Just this month the federal government stopped its public disclosure…

Med Mal Battle Heats Up as Insurance Companies Give $45 Million to Oppose Consumer Justice

The fight over California's Proposition 46 is heating up. Medical…

How Some Tragic Birth Injuries Occur

There is nothing sadder for new parents than their child's birth…