There are numerous benefits associated with using mediation to resolve medical malpractice disputes. The mediation process affords both parties more control over the process, often reduces the cost of ...

Why Mediate Medical Malpractice Cases? Medical malpractice cases are expensive and time-consuming to litigate and require specialized knowledge and understanding of complex medical issues. Mediated ...

One of my favorite expressions tells us, "It doesn't have to be bad to be stressful." Think wedding, communion, bar mitzvah or any other event commemorating something special. Ultimately, the "big day ...

Using mediation to resolve medical malpractice lawsuits offers many benefits, but barriers put up by doctors, hospitals, and their lawyers often stand in the way of it being employed effectively, a ...

Newly empowered Republicans are pushing for legislation that would cap medical malpractice damages, among other things. Tort reform is perennially popular with the GOP. But there may be another remedy ...

A study of mediation in medical malpractice cases finds the approach has potential benefits including a lower cost of litigation and a reduction in medical errors. A key missing ingredient, however, ...

Hyman, a former adjunct research scholar at the Columbia Law School and now with the Medical Mediation Group, notes that it’s likely attorneys are standing in the way. “The lawyers are usually the ...

A new Oregon law establishing a medical malpractice mediation process will undermine patient safety by withholding the names of negligent doctors from a national database, the watchdog organization ...

It is nearly impossible to say what the odds are of winning a particular medical malpractice suit; every case is different, and there are myriad factors to consider. To generalize, though, the odds of ...