Medical Malpractice

Your medical or healthcare records—all the notes, lab results, X-rays, billing statements,  and more—that are generated from your interactions with healthcare providers (and others), are an important part of your medical care. The law guarantees that you have the right to access this information to help you make better medical decisions. Let’s look at...

Indispensable: Someone who’s so important that you couldn’t manage without him, or her. A restaurant needs a maître d. A Broadway show needs a stage manager. And law firms need paralegals. A paralegal is a legal professional who collaborates with attorneys at a law firm to perform legal research, document drafting, and a host...

Did you know that 513,270 malpractice reports were made to a national database in the past 10 years? RP Legal Group examined the number of reports in a state per 100,000 residents. Researchers looked at more than 500,000 adverse action reports (AARs) across the U.S. in the past decade. Adverse action reports are what...

A surgeon in Kentucky allegedly told a patient’s family. “Kick my a**, I deserve it" after complications led to severe blood loss. Dr. Oon Leedhanachoke made that statement or words to that effect after a 2015 lumpectomy that resulted in neurological issues for the patient, Christine Smith. A wire used for a chemotherapy port...

That’s a good question. Criminal law deals with crime and the legal punishment of criminal offenses. Some examples are theft, assault, robbery, trafficking in controlled substances, and murder. A defendant who’s found guilty is punished by incarceration and/or fines. Crimes are broken down into two categories—felonies and misdemeanors. On the other hand, civil law...