As a New York Personal Injury lawyer I find the views I read about and of those I speak to interesting. Some, simply die hard conservatives, can't allow anything President Obama does to go by without castigating it. If he tries to keep the nation's largest automobile company from failing, it must be the act of a socialist. If he nominates Judge Sotomayor he is a person of color playing to another minority. If he attempts to create a dialog with Arab nations he is a Muslim.

Sophie Waller, an eight year old schoolgirl from Cornwall, England, starved to death as a result of a phobia for dentists which cause the child to keep her mouth shut, heard an inquest on Monday.

Lafayette General Medical Center will pay $1.8 million to settle 100 civil medical malpractice cases filed against cardiologist Dr. Mehmood Patel, the hospital announced.

Dr. Eric Leefmans is going to appeal a medical malpractice verdict issued by a New Hampshire Court last week.

A lawsuit filed today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Marshall names comatose former Dallas Cowboys running back Ron Springs as one of the eleven plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of the state of Texas 's per person-cap of $250,000 that can be awarded for non-economic damages as a result of medical malpractice.

Do pediatricians face a malpractice crisis? In the first systematic multi-year analysis of malpractice claims solely against pediatricians, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine report in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics that the answer is neither yes nor no.