While attorney Freeman R. Bosley Jr. awaits a state panel’s decision on his punishment for mishandling clients’ funds, a former client is suing the onetime St. Louis mayor for mishandling his lawsuit. A malpractice suit is scheduled for a March 10 hearing in St. Louis Circuit Court. The suit was filed in April and…(Read More)
Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court said Wednesday that he emailed a plea to supporters before Christmas asking for donations to lift the state’s 38-year-old cap on medical malpractice awards. Too often the limit of $250,000 creates an incentive for hospitals to let children like Jahi die, he said. “She went in…(Read More)
A Suffolk County jury found that two doctors at Children’s Hospital Boston – one of them the hospital’s former physician in chief – had caused the death of a 3-year-old Pennsylvania boy and voted to award his parents $15 million in damages. The actual damage award will be less because of an agreement…(Read More)
Jurors who had spent eight days hearing a medical malpractice case were stunned when it was declared a mistrial. All 15 jurors told the plaintiff’s attorneys that they would have found the physician responsible for the death of a child during delivery, according to a lawyer who polled them. Four hours after the mistrial…(Read More)
A former Halawa prison inmate stands to win nearly $1 million after an appeals court upheld his medical malpractice lawsuit against the state. The state Intermediate Court of Appeals upheld a circuit court judge’s award of $983,000 in damages to Gregory Slingluff. Slingluff was incarcerated on a drug charge at Halawa Correctional Facility…(Read More)