Malpractice

A Broward jury has awarded more than $28.5 million to a Lauderdale Lakes man who was left in a vegetative state after undergoing a "manipulation under anesthesia" in 2008, and another $10 million to the man's two daughters. Dale Whyte, 37, never woke...

What started as a routine legal matter has turned into a nightmarish and costly courthouse roller coaster for Mark Halbman, a Menomonee Falls man who is still in court 13 years after injuring his neck in a traffic accident. Halbman, 53, has gone from...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing lawmakers to pass a gambling bill that would allow the city to weigh its choice of a casino operator in secret and forbid state regulators from taking away its license. The legislation also would grant the mayor authority...

Until it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn't think much about the problem of misdiagnosis. That was before doctors at a Maryland hospital repeatedly told Brook his...

Mental-health medicines This is in response to "Psychologists seek prescription power; Health professionals split over contentious bill now up to House" (News, May 12) and "Rx: Slow down; Psychologists and mental health medicines" (Editorial, May 13)....

I would like to correct an impression made in Monday's lead editorial regarding the supply of physicians [May 13, Malpractice Bill Should Die"]. The editorial stated that "Doctors are not exactly itching to practice here," implying that Connecticut has...

Mark and Pam Crawfords' 8-year-old adopted child recently declared that he is a boy -- asking for a haircut like his father's and telling his pediatrician that he, indeed, is a boy. It was a change the Columbia couple said they saw coming for their...

Moving closer to what would be the first recall election in Broward County, city officials said Tuesday that a petition to recall Commissioner Patte Atkins-Grad has enough valid signatures to continue the process. On its second try, a committee that...

The husband of a Minersville woman who alleges she was the victim of medical malpractice testified Monday in Schuylkill County Court that he feared she would die after she gave birth to their son in August 2009. "She was very pale. She didn't seem...

Responding to new allegations of financial malfeasance and abuse, Los Angeles County officials have decided to stop sending children to a private foster care agency that has been responsible for more than 1,100 youths in recent years. The action was...

Rachel Ockwell labored for three hours before dawn as her husband drove her from Asotin to Prosser, Wash., so she could deliver her third child at a friend's house with the help of a midwife. Ockwell feared that if she went to the hospital she'd have...

Former Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard advocated for recall of David Madore and Tom Mielke at a packed Clark County commissioners meeting earlier this week. It wasn't an idle threat. He and others will meet Saturday to consider how to direct their outrage...