Latest Mass Tort News and Updates

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released new guidelines for clinicians on when and how to prescribe opioids for pain.

The new guidance replaces the agency's…

One of the Giants' backup quarterbacks is suing the Chargers' team doctor for medical negligence in connection with a punctured lung he suffered in 2020.

According to the lawsuit, he is suing the Chargers team doctor and his firm, Newport…

Reading Hospital was sentenced by a Berks County jury to pay $1.3 million to a former patient who sued the hospital for medical misconduct.

According to court records, the jury held the hospital guilty of failing to detect and treat a…

Washington state has agreed to pay $2.75 million to a woman who was critically injured in a rollover accident on Highway 522 involving a state Department of Transportation vehicle.

On March 5, 2018, a mother from Monroe was travelling east…

The family of a 19-year-old teenager has filed a lawsuit against the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority officer who fatally shot him in 2020.

The wrongful-death action was filed in federal court in Cleveland by the deceased boy's…

Two hospitals in New York have agreed to pay more than $165 million to 147 former patients who accused a former doctor of sexual assault and misconduct.

The arrangement was announced by Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York…

A Stark County jury awarded $4.25 million to a widower who sued a former Mercy Medical Center doctor for medical negligence and wrongful death.

According to her husband's attorney, a 43-year-old Dennison resident died in November 2018 after…

The state has agreed to pay a North Liberty couple nearly $4 million after their almost 2-year-old son died in 2018 from an undiagnosed strep infection after visiting University of Iowa-affiliated clinics and facilities, including a UI Quick Care…

A lawsuit filed this month in Olmsted County District Court claims that Mayo Clinic Hospital-Saint Marys medical personnel inadvertently overdosed a patient with an opiate, causing a brain injury.

The plaintiff from Shoreview, Minnesota,…

On Tuesday, a local legal firm filed a revised case on behalf of a Palos Park man who became paraplegic after an indoor skydiving accident in January 2021.

According to the revised lawsuit, on January 21, 2021, the 63-year-old plaintiff was…