California medical malpractice attorney Archives

California Supreme Court Holds Medical Malpractice Laws Do Not Apply In Ambulance Crash Case

September 12, 2025

The Supreme Court of California stated in its July 31, 2025 Opinion: “We granted review in this matter to decide whether the statute of limitations for medical professional negligence claims within the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (Code Civ. Proc., § 340.5)1 applies to an action for[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Negligent Knee Surgery Led To Leg Amputation

May 13, 2025

A California medical malpractice lawsuit has been filed by Wayne Wolff and his wife, alleging that Dr. Dean Wang, a UCI Medical Center orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine, diagnosed him with a left medial meniscus tear and mild knee arthritis, after which performed knee surgery on [...]

California Appellate Court Addresses Expert Qualifications In Emergency Department Malpractice Claims Against Remote Physicians

February 21, 2025

At 2:07 a.m. on October 11, 2020, three-year-old Charlie L. (plaintiff) was brought by his mother to the emergency department at PIH Health Hospital-Whittier for abdominal pain. Plaintiff had been in and out of hospitals for conditions related to a malrotated bowel he had at birth, for which he had [...]

$2.8M California Medical Malpractice Verdict For Steroid Injection Into Dura

February 16, 2025

A 62-year-old woman with lumbar spine disease had a lumbar epidural steroid injection on October 1, 2021. During the procedure, the doctor negligently breached the woman’s dura, causing the steroids to enter into her subdural space. As a result, she suffered extreme headaches, debilitating low[...]

Disturbing Medical Malpractice History Of California Malpractice Defendant

July 11, 2012

On May 22, 2012, a California medical malpractice jury returned a verdict in the amount of nearly $1.2 million in favor of the plaintiffs after a two-week trial (including $908,804 for medical expenses and pain and suffering of the medical malpractice victim and $267,500 to the patient’s husb[...]

Appeal Challenges California’s Medical Malpractice Cap On Noneconomic Damages

July 6, 2012

In 1975, California enacted a law known as The Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (“MICRA”) that limits noneconomic damages (pain and suffering, mental anguish, etc.) for death due to medical malpractice to $250,000. MICRA also requires notification to possible medical malpractice d[...]

California’s Medical Malpractice Damages Cap Limits Valid Claims And Benefits Bad Doctors

January 19, 2012

California has one of the lowest medical malpractice damages caps in the United States — $250,000. This cap limits potential medical malpractice claimants from finding medical malpractice lawyers willing to take their cases, no matter how valid the claims and the seriousness of the injuries,[...]

California Medical Malpractice Claims And Complaints

October 12, 2011

The Medical Board of California, which is responsible to protect health care consumers through the enforcement of the California Medical Practice Act and is also responsible for licensing and regulating physicians, surgeons, and certain allied health care professionals such as midwives, issued its [...]

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