$5.75M Court Settlement In UC California Brain Damage Lawsuit

Medical malpractice lawsuit vs University of California settled. Personal injury attorney claims staff responsible for child’s brain injury. Judge ok’s deal. The plaintiff, Cannon Hoops was born at the UC Davis Medical Center on December 1, 2004, and suffered brain injuries during the delivery. Doctors and medical staff were blamed for the incident, which has [...]

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Award Caps In California: The Facts

California law limits/caps the amount of monetary damages for pain and suffering in lawsuits that can be awarded to victims of medical malpractice at $250,000. How Personal Injury Attorneys are Paid Medical Malpractice Caps Unfair to Poor Exceptions to the Medical Malpractice Cap This law has been in effect since 1975, and has definitely limited [...]

Cancer Malpractice Lawsuit In California: Jury Awards $2.9Million

A judge may soon finalize a $2.9 million medical malpractice award against two Doctors in California, after a single Father filed a negligence lawsuit resulting from his wife dying from ovarian cancer. A jury found that Dr. Young S. Kim, a primary care physician and Dr. Carline Louis-Jacques, an obstetrician failed to properly diagnose and [...]

TV announcer Ed McMahon settles malpractice case

Reuters McMahon, 86, sued Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in July 2008, claiming its physicians failed to diagnose his broken neck after a fall and discharged him without taking an X-ray. He also accused the hospital of botching two subsequent spine operations. … Topics: case, claim, fee, hospital, law, lawyer, local, Los Angeles, malpractice, medical, medical malpractice, [...]