Health Law Research Guide: Medical Malpractice

The court unanimously threw out a 2006 law that requires an injured patient to get a certificate of merit from an expert before suing for medical malpractice.

overturned the state’s five-year-old medical malpractice law because it limited compensation to injured patients for pain, suffering and other non-economic harms

49 St. Louis University Law Journal 73 (2005). "The medical malpractice tort system is a failure ....

32 Clinics in Perinatology 203 (2005).

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Center for Legal Policy

For each state and the District of Columbia, it contains entries on the subject areas of medical malpractice, including statute of limitations, damage caps, and local laws of joint and several liability. Readers may sign up for email notification of revisions and to participate in a forum for comments and discussion.

A website created by a birth trauma litigator, provides information about obstetric and neonatal factors that may contribute to cerebral palsy, to other neurological and intellectual impairments, or to death, as well as some medical terminology.