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…
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Medical Malpractice
MICRA, standard of care, expert practice
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Defeating the Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement
A daughter's signature on a stack of admission papers does not automatically send your elder-abuse case to arbitration. Formation defects,…
The Continuous Treatment Doctrine and Med-Mal Limitations
A client walks in years after the negligent act, seemingly time-barred, but kept seeing the same physician for the same condition the whole…
The EMTALA Claim: A Federal Path in ER Injury Cases
When an emergency-room case runs into certificate-of-merit and expert-affidavit hurdles, an EMTALA claim against the hospital can offer a p…
Two Schools of Thought: The Defense That Can End a Med-Mal Case
The two-schools-of-thought defense can concede the deviation and still defeat liability. What Jones v. Chidester actually requires, and the…