Fire and emergency medical services (EMS) agencies are no stranger to litigation of all types–from criminal to civil claims in local and federal courts. Daily, we see in the news that fire departments ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

A multiracial team stabilizes an injured young adult woman in the hospital emergency room. Violent encounters in the emergency department are becoming a serious issue. This month, Ann W. Latner, JD, ...

Companies or business owners can buy insurance policies to protect them from the negligent acts of their own employees, but the issue of willful misconduct is much less clear. While an insurance ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Corporate negligence is the legal doctrine that holds health-care facilities, such as hospitals, nursing homes and medical clinics, responsible for the well-being of patients. If a health-care ...

The nurse mistakenly administered 120 milligrams of morphine to the wrong patient. This month, we look at a recent case out of Nevada where the court was asked to ...

An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Maxwell Opara, has lent his voice to the issue of medical negligence in Nigerian ...

Joshua Cargile, Michael Carrer, Michael Orlando Jr. In a recent opinion issued on June 27, the Supreme Court of Texas emphasized that the presence of negligence does not always lead to liability, and ...

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A trial alleging gross negligence in a deadly crane collapse in Dallas nearly four years ago began Wednesday afternoon. On June 9, 2019, a crane collapsed during a summer storm and sliced into Elan ...