BACKGROUND Malpractice claims affect the cost and quality of health care. OBJECTIVE In this study, the authors examine legal litigation following body contouring surgery and identify factors influencing malpractice litigation outcomes. METHODS The Westlaw legal database was searched for jury verdict and settlement reports related to body contouring procedures and medical malpractice. Cases ...

Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Petersdorff, and Mr. Gordon Allen, appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Ballantinc, and Mr. Honyman for the defendants. , Mr. Gordon Allan opened the pleadings. The first count was for assaulting and imprisoning the plaintiff in a house called Moorcroft-house, in the parish of Hillingdon, and detaining him there among lunatics a...

Stephen B. Judlowe, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, of New York, New York, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief were Brian P. Murphy, Robert G. Gibbons, Esther H. Steinhauer, David Leichtman, and Timothy P. Heaton. William G. Gaede III, Cooley Godward LLP, of Palo Alto, California, argued for defendant-appellee. With him on the brief were Lori R.E. Ploeger and Michele E. Moreland. ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze malpractice litigation trends and to better understand the causes and outcomes of suits involving inferior vena cava filters (IVCF) to prevent future litigation and improve physician education. METHODS Jury verdict reviews from the WESTLAW database from January 1st 2000 to December 31st 2015 were reviewed. The search term "inferior vena cava filter" was used to compile da...

Froeb and Kobayashi (1996) find that endogenous expenditure decisions at trial tend to eliminate an exogenously given jury bias. For interior solutions, they find the initial bias to be totally eliminated. We find, however, that once the participation constraint of the plaintiff and defendant are taken into account, strong priors by the jury tend to deteriorate the quality of the cases which ar...

Most cases settle, in employment discrimination litigation as elsewhere. Unfortunately, empirical knowledge of settlements remains limited. Data scarcity fuels untested perceptions and, all too frequently, misperceptions about how employment disputes are resolved. This Essay exploits a unique data set of successful settlements in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois fro...

OBJECTIVE To describe medical negligence and malpractice cases in which a patient with a known penicillin allergy received a beta-lactam and experienced an adverse reaction related to the beta-lactam. DATA SOURCES Lexis-Nexus, Westlaw, and Google Scholar were searched. STUDY SELECTIONS Medical negligence and malpractice cases were eligible for inclusion if they met the following criteria: t...