This is likely not medical malpractice without a formal doctor-patient relationship, but it may involve serious civil and criminal...

To hold the surgeon and facility accountable, the focus is on whether both the intraoperative care and the post-op monitoring fell below the...

Legally, losing a patient’s tissue can be a breach of the standard of care if it led to extra surgery, complications, or permanent harm. Once the...

You might have a case if there is, in fact, a nerve injury and it can be tied to the surgery. Removing a lymph node by mistake and developing a...

Usually the ordering doctor gets the results, but hospitals still have a responsibility to act on critical, life-threatening findings. If the...

A general OB-GYN is licensed to perform prolapse surgery, but the real question is whether the surgery and follow-up care met the standard of...

To determine whether this is a malpractice case, we need to know if the provider misread the injury and whether the delay in proper treatment...

That statement oversimplifies the law and can be dangerous. In California, dementia does not give a facility permission to physically handle or...

Yes, ambulance personnel can be held responsible if their negligence directly caused or contributed to someone’s death. If they failed to bring the...

If you clearly told the detectives not to take pictures of your injuries and they did so against your wishes, this could potentially be a violation...