Brookdale Senior Living is a nursing home chain with more than 700 facilities in the U.S., with 12 here in Indiana. Now California Attorney General and other prosecutors recently filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against the company, accusing its...
Indiana has a cap on medical malpractice suits
Doctors, nurses and other health care workers do important work every day, healing the sick, providing care to the infirm and addressing other medical needs. They often go through years of training and have useful experience to help guide them in their work, but they...
Is telemedicine leading to misdiagnosed patients?
The coronavirus pandemic has made it more difficult for patients to see a doctor in person. But even before the pandemic, advocates celebrated telemedicine as a viable alternative to a doctor's office visit. The telemedicine visits replace wellness visits or routine...
$50 million in damages awarded to family of brain-injured boy
A jury awarded $101 million in a recent birth injury case, but an agreement between the parties reduced the amount to $50 million. The case, which was brought in Illinois, was against the West Suburban Medical Center in the greater Chicago area. The details are...
