FDA Class I Recall of Abiomed Impella CP Exposes Cardiac Centers to Med-Mal Claims
The FDA's July 2, 2026 Class I recall of Abiomed Impella CP Sets with SmartAssist exposes cardiac centers to negligent-entrustment claims n…
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Negligencia médica
MICRA, standard of care, expert practice
Res Ipsa and the Retained-Object Never-Event Case
A sponge left inside a patient is the rare med-mal claim where the event speaks for itself. Here is how to keep res ipsa alive against the…
Negligent Credentialing and the Hospital's Own Files
Negligent credentialing reaches the hospital's own duty to vet the physicians it privileges, and it opens a file the defense fights to keep…
Enfamil NEC Bellwether Opens as Med-Mal Nuclear Verdicts Surge in 2026
The Enfamil NEC bellwether in MDL 3026, Inman v. Mead Johnson, commenced July 6, 2026 with 810 cases pending and a verdict that will set gl…
Getting Past the Peer-Review Privilege in Med-Mal Cases
The peer-review privilege is narrower than the standard objection letter pretends. How to separate the protected deliberative core from the…
Holding the Hospital Liable for the ER's Independent Contractors
Emergency-room physicians are almost never hospital employees. Ostensible agency is how plaintiffs reach the institution anyway, and the co…
Veredictos nucleares por negligencia médica y reajustes de los topes de MICRA transforman la recuperación de liens en 2026
A Philadelphia jury returned a $35 million verdict for Isis Spencer after contaminated biopsy slides caused an unnecessary hysterectomy, an…
Litigating the ER Malpractice Case Under the Gross-Negligence Bar
In heightened-standard states, emergency-department malpractice cases are won on whether the emergency-care shield attaches at all, not on…
Building the Loss-of-Chance Case When the Odds Were Already Long
Delayed-diagnosis files where the patient's baseline survival odds sat below fifty percent look dead under traditional causation. The loss-…
Informed Consent Is Not a Shield Against Negligence
Informed consent can win on its own and lose you the negligence case if you handle it carelessly. It has its own elements, its own causatio…
Maine $23.1M Paralysis Verdict Leads 2026 Med-Mal Surge Across Five Jurisdictions
A Maine jury returned $23.1M on June 18, 2026, in Giordano v. Northern Light AR Gould Hospital for permanent paralysis, one of the largest…
Berk v. Choy and the Federal Merit-Affidavit Question
The Supreme Court held state certificate-of-merit statutes do not apply in federal court. What Berk v. Choy changes for forum choice, exper…