An analysis of professional insurance records has revealed that three-quarters of all doctors in the United States are sued at least one time for malpractice during their careers. At the same time, just 1.6 percent of the lawsuits resulted in payments to injured patients or surviving family members of people who lost their lives because a doctor…
The February 2010 prescription drug overdose death of a young U.S. Marine at Portsmouth Naval Hospital is being blamed, in part, on a hot shower that appears to have increased the absorpton of fentanyl from a pain patch applied to relieve cancer pain. Ezequiel Freire’s family is not satisfied with the explanation for why their…
My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has written a new post for our firm’s VA-NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys blog site site about a lawsuit in which a couple from West Virginia (WV) is seeking compensaion form and punitve damages against a doctor they claim failed to diagnose the wife’s skin cancer despite the presence and…
Our Virginia Beach personal injury law firm hosted a seminar for members of the Virginia Beach Bar Association. This Virginia Beach, Virginia lawyers voluntary association includes lawyers who are based in Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk and in Virginia Beach, VA. Over 100 lawyers, including personal injury lawyers, attended the hot topics in…
Prosecutors rested their case against Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray, on October 24, 2011. Murray has pled not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter for administering a fatal overdose of propofol, but prosecutors have argued that Murray demonstrated negligence so extreme he should be in prison.. According to Reuters, the final prosecution witness told…