Sommers Schwartz, P.C., a Detroit-based law firm, announced a multi-million-dollar settlement this week for a case against a ...

Nebraska pulled off the impossible on the final play of the half Saturday against Michigan football. Quarterback Dylan Raiola heaved a Hail Mary pass from just beyond midfield that was caught at the ...

Two proposed Michigan bills would restrict the type of patients who can sue physicians for medical malpractice and raise the burden of proof to sue for malpractice. Under Senate Bill 1110 (pdf), ...

In this 2011 file photo, Service Employees International Union members picket outside Hackley Hospital. (The Muskegon Chronicle) MUSKEGON, MI - A statewide union for service workers in the healthcare ...

A Wayne County jury awarded a mother and her 13-year-old son $120 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Henry Ford Health System. The family's lawyers contended the boy suffered brain ...

When a treatment goes wrong at a U.S. hospital, fear of a lawsuit usually means "never daring to say you're sorry." That's not the way it works at the University of Michigan Health System, where ...

BOSTON — One plank of Gov. Deval Patrick’s plan to bring down soaring health care costs in Massachusetts is to change the laws around medical malpractice. Under proposed changes, doctors in ...

The members of the Michigan Supreme Court voted 4-3 in support of an order that would change the deadlines for healthcare providers being sued for malpractice, according to a report in the Chicago ...

The Michigan Wolverines are now 6-2 after taking down their in-state rival Michigan State Spartans this past weekend, but one former star player believes the team can be so much better if Sherrone ...

Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation last week that strengthens the state’s medical malpractice tort laws and provides additional protection against lawsuits to physicians. The ...