California medical malpractice claim Archives

California Appeals Court Allows Claim That Patient Froze To Death In Hospital Morgue

April 7, 2014

On April 2, 2014, the Court of Appeals of the State of California Second Appellate District Division Four (“Appeals Court”) reinstated claims against a California hospital by the relatives of a woman who allegedly was declared dead by the defendant hospital’s medical staff but la[...]

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 Medical Malpractice Verdict For Obstetrical Malpractice

June 8, 2012

On April 20, 2012, a California medical malpractice jury awarded $74,525,000 to the family of a newborn who suffered a permanent, life-changing brain injury leading to the baby’s cerebral palsy in 2009. The majority of the jury’s award will go towards the payment of the medical expen[...]

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 13-Year-Old Medical Malpractice Victim Now A Paraplegic

November 22, 2011

A young California girl who was 13 when a California radiologist negligently misread her x-ray that ultimately led to a serious medical condition resulting in the girl’s paraplegia recently won her medical malpractice case. The 13-year-old girl was hospitalized in 2003 when she was experiencin[...]

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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