It turns out that the patient had prostate cancer and died from metastatic disease.

By the middle of the first decade of this century, Tennessee was declared a medical liability "crisis state" by the American Medical Association.

Lawyers and legislators are anxiously awaiting decisions on two cases in Georgia that may affect the state's tort reforms.

According to the American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF), a "judicial hellhole" is a place where judges systematically apply laws and court procedures in an unfair and unbalanced manner, gen­erally against defendants in civil lawsuits.

This case revolves around a 63-year-old female cardiac patient whose open-heart surgery yielded an infection in her sternum.

The American Association for Justice, a trial lawyers group, has launched a grass roots campaign to highlight the issue of medical errors and the importance of malpractice litigation.

Ninety-four percent of medical liability insurance premiums remained the same or dropped in price in 2009, according to the annual Medical Liability Monitor survey, which polls insurance companies to track this information.

An Arizona medical malpractice reform bill, which was signed into law last summer and went into effect recently, makes it harder for patients to sue hospitals, emergency room physicians, on-call specialists, and other hospital personnel involved in providing emergency treatment.

Mr. W, 38, was referred to Dr. R, a practicing urologist of nearly 30 years. The patient, who had learning disabilities, had three young children with various birth defects. Mr. W had been advised to get a vasectomy due to the high risk that any other child he fathered would also have birth defects.

A noncompliant diabetic patient sues after suffering complications from untreated ulcers.