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$13M New Mexico Medical Malpractice Verdict For Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols’ Death

June 9, 2026

Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek series, went to the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, New Mexico in 2022 for a treatable heart problem. Hours after she was discharged from the hospital, the 89-year-old died. The lawsuit reportedly alleged that Nicho[...]

AMA Releases Two Reports Regarding Medical Malpractice

April 29, 2026

According to a press release from the American Medical Association on April 27, 2026: “New research studies from the American Medical Association (AMA) reveal that many physicians face a significant risk of being sued during their careers. The ever-present risk of lawsuits—even when no error[...]

New Mexico Governor Signs Medical Malpractice Reform Bill

March 10, 2026

On March 6, 2026, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law medical malpractice reform bill HB99, which she said “will help reduce the cost of medical malpractice insurance and attract more physicians to New Mexico.” The bill creates tiered caps on punitive damages — $[...]

Two Louisiana State Senators Part Of Ownership Group Of Nursing Home Being Sued For Wrongful Death; They Recently Voted In Favor Of Legislation Benefitting Nursing Homes

July 2, 2025

Louisiana Senate President Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, and Senator Bob Hensgens, R-Abbeville, are part of a 10-person ownership group for the Acadia St. Landry Nursing and Rehabilitation Center (“Acadia”) in Church Point, Louisiana. Senator Hensgens is also the administrator of the nursin[...]

medicalmalpracticelawyers.com’s 5,000th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting

October 28, 2024

Yesterday we posted our 5,000th consecutive daily blog. When we first started posting daily blogs in March 2011, Barack Obama was President of the United States; a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Honshu on the Japan Trench causing a tsunami that disabled three nuclear reac[...]

$97M Iowa Birth Injury Malpractice Verdict Leads To Bad Faith Lawsuits Against Defendant Clinic’s Insurer

April 11, 2024

After an Iowa birth injury medical malpractice jury returned its record-setting $97 million verdict against an Iowa medical clinic that led to the Iowa legislature imposing a cap on damages in medical malpractice cases, both the clinic and the Plaintiffs in the birth injury medical malpractice case [...]

New Mexico Governor Signs Into Law Medical Malpractice Reforms Extending Protections To Independent Outpatient Health Care Facilities

April 12, 2023

New Mexico Governor Signs Medical Malpractice Reform Law: New Mexico Senate Bill 523, which was signed into law on April 7, 2023, amends the New Mexico Medical Malpractice Act to cap claims for independent healthcare facilities, such as urgent care, ambulatory surgical centers, and free-standing eme[...]

Iowa Enacts New Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Law

February 23, 2023

New Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Law: On February 16, 2023, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law House File 161, which limits noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases to $250,000 unless the injuries are substantial or permanent, in which case the limits are now $1 million or $2 mi[...]

Medical Malpractice Caps Result In 16% Increase In Adverse Events

May 11, 2022

A policy paper published in May 2022 entitled The California Malpractice Cap on Noneconomic Losses: Unintended Consequences and Arguments for Reform stated, “the introduction of caps on noneconomic damages are associated with a 16% increase in adverse events. Given this, it is likely that repe[...]

Medical Malpractice Insurers Are Top Donors Opposing California’s Fairness For Injured Patients Act

March 12, 2022

The California Changes to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Cap Initiative has qualified for the ballot in California as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022. The ballot initiative would require an annual adjustment of the cap based on inflation and would allow judges and juries to award damag[...]

California Medical Association Responds To Efforts To Lift Caps On Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases

February 9, 2022

Since 1975, California’s cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases has remained at $250,000. What that means is that the most egregiously and seriously injured victims of medical malpractice in California will not receive compensation in excess of $250,000 for their pain and suff[...]

Today’s 4,000th Consecutive Daily Blog (medicalmalpracticelawyers.com)

January 31, 2022

Today’s blog is our 4,000th consecutive daily blog. It is hard to believe that we have been posting daily blogs on this website for 4,000 days straight. The more we post blogs, the more we realize that medical malpractice in the United States remains a national tragedy, effecting not only the [...]

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