The Florida Supreme Court has declined a request to review a dispute regarding malpractice liability on the part of two doctors at the University of Miami. The case revolves around a brain injury suffered by a now 17-year old boy during his childbirth at Jackson... Read More

On December 30, 2015, a mother from California filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK), claiming that the defendant's anti-emetic medication Zofran resulted in a congenital heart defect in her child following his birth in 2009. She is demanding compensation in excess... Read More

On March 16, 2009, Air Force veteran Jorge Ortiz and his wife welcomed their new baby daughter after a harrowing delivery at Evans Army Community Hospital in Colorado, where the mother was an active duty Air Force Captain. The childbirth – a planned C-section delivery... Read More

Dr. June Colman of Houston has been accused of malpractice and improper use of vacuum suction that allegedly killed an infant boy during childbirth. The Houston Press reports that the obstetrician purportedly mismanaged the delivery at Pasadena’s Bayshore Medical Center, after gruesome details of the... Read More

A new complaint has joined the RE: Stryker Rejuvenate and ABG II Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, known as MDL No. 2441. Rosena Lyons filed a short form complaint in the Northern District of Georgia in regards to hip implant complications she claims to have... Read More

Texas parents, both individually and as next of friends of their minor child, have filed a medical malpractice lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The complaint involves medical service rendered at the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center in Killeen, Texas, where the plaintiffs’... Read More

Harris Martin reports that the JPML has granted plaintiff’s requests to centralize some 20 power morcellator lawsuits for more efficient pretrial proceedings. The complaints center on allegations that that the devices, which are commonly used in laparoscopic fibroid removal and hysterectomy procedures, can inadvertently spread... Read More

A recent birth injury case filed in the U.S. District Court of Tennessee (Nashville Division) claims that the defendant health care providers failed to properly manage the delivery of the minor plaintiff, which ultimately led to extended fetal oxygen deprivation and brain injury at birth.... Read More