Baltimore Medical Malpractice Verdict For Mutilated Genitals

June 21, 2012

A federal medical malpractice jury in Baltimore has awarded $1.5 million to a 38-year-old man whose genitals were allegedly mutilated by a flesh-eating bacteria that a local hospital failed to diagnose for over 58 hours. The award in the amount of $1.4 million for noneconomic damages will be auto[...]

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Feds Test The Medical Malpractice Reform Waters

August 28, 2011

On January 24, 2011, a bill was introduced in the United States House of Representatives (H.R. 5) that would have made changes to medical malpractice laws on the federal level. If H.R. 5 became law, the new law would be known as the “Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare�[...]

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