Patients have a right to ethical, honorable, and proficient medical care under their physicians. Far too often, this is not the case in hospitals across America. Each year, an estimated 210,000 to 440,000 hospital patients suffer a form of negligence or malpractice...
When older adults become less able to care for themselves, loved ones choose a residential care facility they hope will be a good option for safe, supervised living. The vast majority of elder care facilities are run by well-trained, compassionate staff with a genuine...
Most settlements, especially those involving doctors and hospitals, involve confidentiality provisions. They are almost always a condition of settlement and the defense will refuse to settle a case without one. The California Supreme Court on July 11, 2019 held in...
Ben Ikuta of Hodes Milman, recently settled a wrongful death case against a Los Angeles area hospital. On January 20, 2017, the 66-year old Decedent successfully underwent a thrombectomy and angioplasty surrounding a clotted fistula at a different hospital. At that...
Code of Civil Procedure section 998 is a powerful tool that promotes settlements in California. When a party sends a section 998 offer for a monetary amount, the other side has 30 days to respond to it. If the offer is rejected or the 30-day period lapses, there can...
Dan Hodes is pursuing justice as lead counsel on behalf of dozens of families whose children were used to meet dental quotas and sickened by a deadly bacteria found in a dental clinic’s water system. Parents of affected children joined a growing lawsuit against...
If you have experienced the death of a loved one, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed and confused, whether it was sudden or expected. However, losing a loved one can be doubly difficult to recover from when it was a wrongful death. Families of wrongful death victims can...
Class Action and Mass Tort: The Differences Class action and mass tort cases are civil lawsuits with many similarities, yet very distinct differences in how they are “litigated” or processed through the legal system. Despite their differences, both class action and...
What is the July Effect? Every July, thousands of medical school students begin residencies, giving them the opportunity for increased responsibility involving patient care. After years of classroom learning, newly graduated doctors are working on real patients in...
The University of Southern California is admitting fault for improperly addressing dozens of complaints against a former campus gynecologist for inappropriately examining students over almost 30 years. George Tyndall was the only full time USC gynecologist on staff...