Medical Malpractice

On April 29, 2019, legislators passed regulations that repeal the Certificate of Need (CON) law. The new measure primarily affects hospitals. The law prohibited health care providers from venturing into new business markets unless a need went unmet in an underserved community. Unfortunately, the CON law also limited innovations in the health care space. Moreover, lawmakers agreed.  As of July…

The Food & Drug Administration has recalled, textured breast implants that were made by Allergan. The FDA also announced that the implants will be recalled globally. The Allergan devices were banned in Europe late last year. The disease which the implants are linked to is anaplastic large cell lymphoma, a rare cancer of the immune system. The disease develops in…

Florida Doctors Previous Negligence Still Risking Future Negligence in Patients When a Florida doctor’s negligence causes the loss of a loved one or leaves you with a life-changing injury, you file a medical malpractice lawsuit to collect damages and, hopefully, deter that physician from committing preventable errors in the future. Unfortunately, there’s a high likelihood that your second goal won’t…

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and stroke are two distinct medical conditions, but they have a few things in common. To begin with, both diagnoses are extremely serious. MS is a chronic health condition that can fundamentally alter quality of life and may even be totally debilitating to the patient. Stroke, meanwhile, is a life-threatening medical emergency. Even those who survive stroke…

We look at several of the biggest, multi-million-dollar medical malpractice recoveries in recent Florida history (and some of our own successes as Miami medical malpractice attorneys). You might have heard that medical malpractice claims are some of the toughest cases to win in Florida. If you’ve recently suffered injury or hardship because of a health care provider’s negligence, hearing that…

Not too long ago, a Veterans Administration Medical Center settled a medical malpractice lawsuit with an Army veteran for approximately $750,000. Complications from an unnecessary surgery left the veteran permanently disabled. He followed all the required steps for suing the Veterans Administration (VA), which admitted liability without going to trial. Other veterans have also won their medical malpractice lawsuits. In…

In 1995, a Florida hospital and surgeon made national news, but not in a good way. In a medical malpractice case that is still talked about today, a surgeon cut off a diabetic patient’s healthy leg instead of the diseased one. A string of hospital and physician errors led to the mistake. The surgeon defended himself, claiming the error might…

Abortion is never an easy choice, and when a woman suffers injuries because of the procedure, she may not know where to turn for help. If you have been injured as the result of terminating a pregnancy, you may wonder if you can sue for abortion clinic malpractice. State laws do not treat abortion clinics differently than any other types…

If you believe you have been the victim of medical malpractice, it’s important to understand the statute of limitations. Under Florida law, the statute of limitations imposes a deadline for filing a medical malpractice case. How long do you have to file a medical malpractice lawsuit in Florida? In most cases, civil claims must be filed no more than two…

The majority of women do not experience hemorrhaging in childbirth, and on average, natural births cause the least blood loss. In cesarean births, or C-sections, blood loss typically is twice as high at about 1,000 milliliters. The risk of postpartum hemorrhage — severe bleeding following a birth — increases significantly following a C-section, and risk is greatest within the first…