A jury in New Jersey awarded a young woman and her family $17 million over an incident that caused her...
Read MoreIn 2013, April Strange, a 33-year-old woman from central Illinois, had an elective surgery to remove a non-cancerous growth from...
Read MoreAn Arkansas jury has awarded a two-year-old plaintiff and her parents $46.5 million in a case against the hospital and...
Read MorePart 2 of a 2-part series that originally appeared in the Legal Examiner. The real cost of a lawsuit Sex...
Read MoreEvery year, Oregon hospitals submit reports on the medical mistakes that harm their patients. The 2011 report from the Oregon...
Read MoreAbout 1.7 million hospital-acquired infections cause or contribute to 99,000 deaths each year. That makes preventable medical mistakes the sixth...
Read MoreA young cancer patient in Portland claims that a doctor operated on the wrong side of her neck, removing healthy...
Read MoreAll of Oregon’s community hospitals have joined a government-coordinated effort to reduce and prevent medical errors that harm or kill...
Read MoreDefibrillators are supposed to save lives by restoring a patient’s heart’s normal rhythm through a shock administered by pads placed...
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