Medical malpractice verdicts topping $10 million — often dubbed “nuclear” awards — are becoming more common as juries hand down eye-popping damages for catastrophic injuries and wrongful deaths.

The legal and financial environment surrounding malpractice premiums and lawsuits has intensified as awards of more than $10 million become increasingly commonplace in healthcare. Here are six things ...

Responding to doctors’ concerns that New Mexico’s malpractice system is making it hard to practice medicine, leading ...

After going more than a decade without medical liability insurance premiums being a hot topic among physicians, the subject is popping up in conversation once again. Premiums have been rising in some ...

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Los AlamosChair of the House Judiciary Committee Healthcare access is top of mind for everyone in New Mexico, rightfully so, ...

Legal malpractice lawyers say the best way for lawyers to protect themselves from the situation Holland & Knight finds itself in on the hook for $34.5 million in damages for malpractice claims brought ...

The New Mexico Medical Malpractice Act has been at the center of a contentious debate for at least five years, when an ...

Jilek believes a critical shortage of doctors in New Mexico is related to the state’ s medical malpractice environment, where liability insurance premiums for providers have risen far above the costs ...

Last week, a jury awarded a Pennsylvania man $620,000 for pain and suffering in a medical malpractice lawsuit he filed against a surgeon who mistakenly removed his healthy testicle, leaving the ...

Lawmakers have begun filing bills seeking to end the practice of beginning almost all malpractice lawsuits with the threat of ...