FDA Class I Recall Peak and Howell-Qaadir Lien Scrutiny Reshape 2026 PI Dockets
FDA Class I device recalls hit a 15-year peak in 2026, with functional failure overtaking manufacturing defects for the first time in five…
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Medical Malpractice
MICRA, standard of care, expert practice
Shoulder Dystocia and Erb's Palsy: Building the Birth Injury Med-Mal Case
When the obstetric team fails to apply the recognized shoulder-dystocia maneuver sequence, the result is often a permanent brachial plexus…
Cosmetic Surgery Malpractice: Negligence vs. Bad Outcome and the Informed Consent Case
Cosmetic surgery complications generate frequent malpractice inquiries but require careful case screening. The bad-outcome defense is power…
Radiology Misread Malpractice: Building the Imaging Miss Case from Standard of Care to Causation
Radiologist misreads of CT scans, MRIs, and chest X-rays generate some of the most preventable diagnostic errors in medicine. The liability…
Covidien Hernia Mesh MDL: $88M Bellwether Verdict and FDCA Preemption Risk
A federal jury awarded $88 million in Patterson v. Medtronic on August 4, 2026, the first bellwether among 2,500-plus Covidien Symbotex mes…
Telehealth Malpractice: Defining the Standard of Care for Remote Medicine Claims
Telehealth encounters have become a routine feature of American healthcare delivery, and they produce a distinct category of malpractice cl…
Failure to Diagnose Stroke: Building the Med-Mal Case When the Window Closes
Stroke malpractice cases offer something most med-mal files lack: a precise, time-anchored causation framework built around the tPA treatme…
Medication Error Malpractice: Prescribing, Dispensing, and the Pharmacist's Independent Duty
Medication errors harm hundreds of thousands of patients each year in the United States, and liability runs across prescribers, dispensing…
Anesthesia Malpractice: CRNA Supervision and Monitoring Failures
Anesthesia errors carry some of the highest malpractice exposure in medicine because the consequences of monitoring failures are immediate…
Hospital-Acquired Infection Claims and Infection Control Failures
Hospital-acquired infections are among the most preventable adverse events in healthcare, and when a facility's infection control failures…
Delayed Cancer Diagnosis: Building the Standard-of-Care Record
When a physician fails to follow up on abnormal findings or refer to a specialist and the cancer advances to a harder-to-treat stage, the m…
Medical Malpractice Verdicts and California Lien Priority Shifts in Q2 2026
A Michigan federal jury awarded $307.5 million in April 2026 against a correctional healthcare company, one of the largest carceral medical…