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Do Apologies Avoid Medical Malpractice Lawsuits?

November 25, 2025

In a research article entitled “On the Influence of Apologies on the Likelihood of Lawsuits in Cases of Perceived Medical Negligence: Analysis of Archival and Experimental Data” published on October 14, 2025 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the researchers sought to investiga[...]

The Doctors Company To Acquire ProAssurance Corporation

March 21, 2025

As per the March 19, 2025 The Doctors Company press release: The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, and ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA), an industry-leading specialty insurer with extensive expertise in medical liability, products liability for [...]

Dallas Anesthesiologist Convicted Of Tampering With IV Bags Sentenced To 190 Years In Prison

January 22, 2025

On November 20, 2024, a Dallas anesthesiologist who injected dangerous drugs into patient IV bags, leading to one death and numerous cardiac emergencies, was sentenced to 190 years in prison. Raynaldo Riviera Ortiz Jr., 60, was charged by criminal complaint in September 2022 and indicted the followi[...]

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[...]

Medical Malpractice Statistics For The United States – 2024

August 24, 2024

Medical malpractice is the third most common cause of death in the United States, with medical errors accounting for 251,000 deaths annually (that is, 9.5% of all deaths in the United States annually). If you are over age 65, you are 12% more likely to be the victim of medical malpractice. Medical m[...]

HHS Proposes Rule Establishing Disincentives For Health Care Providers That Have Committed Information Blocking

January 7, 2024

On October 30, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule for public comment that would establish disincentives for health care providers found by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to have committed information blocking – when a provider[...]

Study: More Medical Malpractice Cases Being Filed Against Vascular Surgeons Involving Aortic Pathologies

April 13, 2023

More Cases Being Filed Involving Aortic Pathologies: More Medical Malpractice Cases Being Filed Against Vascular Surgeons: A study published online on December 19, 2022 entitled “An Analysis of Malpractice Litigation of Vascular Surgeons in Cases Involving Aortic Pathologies” that analyz[...]

Contaminated Donor Breast Milk In Pennsylvania Hospital’s NICU Kills Three Babies, Sickens Five Others

November 16, 2019

The process that Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania used to prepare donor breast milk was the cause of the deadly bacterial infections that caused the deaths of three babies in August and September 2019, and sickened five other babies in its NICU since July 2019. Of the five survivin[...]

Why Can’t I Find A Medical Malpractice Lawyer? Part I

November 1, 2018

We receive calls all the time from potential medical malpractice victims throughout the United States complaining that they have been injured due to medical malpractice but they have been unable to find a local medical malpractice lawyer to take their case. They are often frustrated, and they ask if[...]

Federal Appellate Court Reluctantly Applies Feres Doctrine, Sinks Wrongful Death Claim For Navy Lieutenant Who Died Hours After Giving Birth

May 23, 2018

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) in its decision filed on May 7, 2018 stated that it “regretfully reach[s] the conclusion that [the plaintiff’s] claims are barred by the Feres doctrine” in a case in which the husband o[...]

Louisiana Appellate Court Affirms Medical Malpractice Plaintiff Missed Statute Of Limitations

April 4, 2018

In its opinion published on March 14, 2018, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal State of Louisiana (“Louisiana Appellate Court”) stated that the Louisiana medical malpractice plaintiff, who had filed her Louisiana medical malpractice lawsuit on January 2, 2014, had “introduced absolu[...]

New Study Finds Increased Risk Of Complications Following Overlapping Surgeries

December 6, 2017

A new study published online on December 4, 2017 in JAMA Internal Medicine investigated the association between overlapping surgeries (i.e., double-booked surgeries, where a single attending surgeon supervises two or more surgeries occurring in different operating rooms at the same time) for hip fra[...]

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