Recent studies have shown that the number of medical malpractice lawsuits filed in the United States has dropped significantly over the last twenty years while the average claim has risen. Higher claims have been cited by proponents of tort reform, but efforts to reform tort law may make it more difficult for those who have…(Read More)

A Miami doctor whose botched liposuction of a North Miami man led to a $1 million malpractice judgment in Miami-Dade court has agreed to stop performing the surgical procedure under the terms of a disciplinary order handed down by the Florida Board of Medicine in April. The doctor, Amaryllis Pascual, is prohibited from performing…(Read More)

Marla Dixon was in the final stage of labor and ready to deliver a baby boy when the obstetrician arrived at her bedside at North Shore Medical Center in Miami. It was not a high-risk pregnancy. But over the next 90 minutes, the doctor made a series of missteps that led to a tragic…(Read More)

A Moultonborough man has filed a medical malpractice suit, claiming his mother suffered a “painful, horrific and unnecessary death” because four different doctors were unable to diagnose that a pill stuck in her throat was burning a hole into her pulmonary artery. Patricia Putnam, 80, was living at her lakefront retirement home in Moultonborough on…(Read More)

Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found paid medical malpractice claims for physicians in the United States declined during the past two decades. Researchers found the overall rate of claims paid on behalf of all physicians from 1992 to 2014 decreased 55.7 percent, with pediatricians having the largest decline of 75.8 percent…(Read More)