Medical Malpractice

The national rate of women who have C-sections has hovered right above 31 percent in recent years. This can have consequences for the women who give birth, as there is…

Florida medical patients undergo a variety of surgical procedures each day in hospitals throughout the state. Some operations are considered minor, while others are more serious; yet, all surgeries include…

If you’ve been a victim of medical malpractice, then you may already have discovered that there are limits on how much you can receive in compensation. Medical malpractice limits are…

Typically, a person entering a hospital emergency room for care is in an urgent situation. One might be suffering from any number of ailments or conditions that prompted a trip…

In Florida and throughout the United States, families grieve when they suffer the deaths of loved ones. Depending upon the circumstances, the devastation and sorrow of a family member’s death…

The widow of a Vietnam veteran who underwent a dental procedure and ultimately died as a result of complications afterward said that her husband survived war and cancer but was…

If you have a loved one living out their remaining years in a nursing home or extended care facility, it’s likely that you worry about the sufficiency of the care…

Florida mothers may relate to one woman’s devastation when her child was born with severe brain injuries. To make matters worse, those injuries were entirely preventable and were caused by…

Doctors and other medical providers are alarmed at a growing trend among some of their patients — using smartphones to record diagnoses and complex information about their medical conditions. For…

When a woman enters a hospital in order to give birth to a child, she has the right to reasonably assume that those assisting in the birth will conduct themselves…

When a person is misdiagnosed by a doctor, many things can go wrong fast. Precious time is wasted on treating conditions that were never correctly diagnosed, and this can cause…

It cannot be disputed that some Florida medical patients die because of negligence on the part of medical staff members. More rare, however, are cases wherein a medical malpractice accusation results…

A recent case involved a man who was undergoing a colonoscopy at a medical facility outside the state of Florida. He was given anesthesia and had turned on his cellphone…

If you have ever sought psychiatric care, your diagnosis would have been based on conditions described and detailed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. These psychiatric labels…

Some women appear to have pregnancies that are nine months of joyful expectation, while others cope with typical side effects like morning sickness, indigestion and gaining too much weight. But…