California medical malpractice attorneys Archives

California Doctor Criminally Charged With Baby’s Circumcision Death

May 31, 2026

It has been reported that a doctor in California has been criminally charged with involuntary manslaughter arising from the death of a two-day-old infant after he allegedly administered a narcotic instead of an anesthetic prior to performing a circumcision. The parents also filed a medical malp[...]

California Appellate Court Reverses Summary Judgment For Medical Malpractice Defendant Due To Deficient Expert Report

April 21, 2025

Plaintiff Sabrina Zaragoza appealed from the summary judgment entered in favor of defendant Dr. Nadir Adam in a California medical malpractice action. Plaintiff contended that Dr. Adam was not entitled to summary judgment because his medical expert failed to provide a reasoned explanation for his op[...]

$3.3M California Verdict For Failure To Disclose Hip Fracture Resulting From Visitor’s Fall At Hospital

March 9, 2025

On May 13, 2019, Denise Wood went to visit her mother at St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, California. While walking through the hospital, she slipped on a liquid substance left unattended on the floor and immediately experienced severe pain. A hospital employee instructed Denise to go to the[...]

California Lawsuit Alleges Hospital Misplaced Deceased Patient’s Body For One Year

November 7, 2024

A lawsuit filed in California in August 2024 by the family of a woman who died in a California hospital alleges that they were not told that their family member had died in the hospital, and that her body was misplaced into cold strorage for one year. The lawsuit reportedly alleges that the 31-year-[...]

California Appellate Court Says Medical Malpractice Statute Of Limitations Applies To Traffic Accident Claim

February 8, 2024

The Court of Appeal for the State of California Sixth Appellate District (“California Appellate Court”) stated in its December 1, 2023 published opinion: “In this appeal we must decide whether a driver in a separate vehicle, injured in a collision with an ambulance transporting a p[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Unnecessary Sinus Surgery

October 11, 2022

Lawsuit Alleges Unnecessary Surgery: A recently filed California medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that defendant ENT/head and neck surgeon Dr. Alen N. Cohen (“Dr. Cohen”) and defendant plastic surgeon Matthew “Matt” Hershcovitch (“Dr. Hershcovitch”) recommended unnecessary sinus surge[...]

New Trial Ordered In California Medical Malpractice Defense Win Where Defense Attorney Bragged To His Employees How He Obtained A Defense Verdict

August 22, 2022

Attorney Bragged To His Employees How He Obtained A Defense Verdict – New Trial Ordered: An online video that went viral (and then taken down) that showed a California medical malpractice defense lawyer’s associate gleefully ringing a bell after the lawyer told his law firm’s emplo[...]

California Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Defense Verdict Where Patient Did Not Consent To Knee Surgery Performed But Jury Found No Harm

October 12, 2019

The Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District Division One State of California (“California Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on September 24, 2019 that “[w]hile in many cases, even most, a patient subjected to an unwanted surgery will easily be able to prove[...]

Lawsuit Alleges California Hospital Secretly Videoed 1,800 Women Without Their Knowledge

May 19, 2019

On March 29, 2019, a lawsuit was filed against a California hospital that alleged that the hospital secretly video recorded 1,800 patients using hidden cameras at its women’s health center between July 17, 2012 and June 30, 2013 inside three Labor and Delivery operating rooms. The surreptitiou[...]

California Appellate Court Holds Hospital Not Vicariously Liable For Alleged Medical Negligence Of On-Call Physicians

May 18, 2019

The Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division One, State of California (“California Appellate Court”) held in its unpublished opinion filed on April 15, 2019 “the Hospital could not be vicariously liable for any negligence by the on-call physicians because the physicians[...]

$68M California Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Cardiac Surgeon Who Left Before Surgery Completed

April 7, 2018

A California medical malpractice jury returned its verdict against a cardiac surgeon in the amount of $12,390,000 in punitive damages on March 19, 2018, in addition to the $55,600,000 in compensatory damages that the California medical malpractice jury awarded to the plaintiff on March 1, 2018, due [...]

Dog X-Ray Is Downfall Of California Pill Mill Doctor

July 15, 2012

On July 12, 2012, a California doctor was arrested for allegedly running a pill mill (a medical clinic where prescription medications are readily and easily prescribed, available, and/or dispensed with little or no proper legitimate medical need). The doctor had been under investigation for about t[...]

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