A nurse in Wisconsin has been charged with elder abuse, accused of amputating a hospice patient's frostbitten foot without his consent and without doctor's orders.

An $831,474.84 settlement has been reached in a medical malpractice case in Dane County.

A new consulting firm specializing in nursing home malpractice has opened in Milwaukee.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has issued a unanimous decision upholding a jury verdict clearing a Columbia St. Mary's doctor of medical malpractice.

A jury in Wayne County, Michigan, has awarded $135 million verdict in a lawsuit over a botched spinal surgery on a 10-year-old girl.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide whether a woman should receive $25.3 million a jury awarded her after she had four limbs amputated as a result of medical malpractice.

Wisconsin's cap on noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases is unconstitutional because it puts severely injured patients at a disadvantage, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.

A former Wisconsin youth prison inmate who was brain damaged in a suicide attempt alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday that staff ignored warning signs and failed to prevent her from hanging herself, marking the second federal action in a week over the treatment of inmates at the prison.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has found that two lower courts were right when they allowed a medical expert to draw on personal experiences for his testimony in a medical-malpractice case.

We are a nation of laws based on an assumption of fairness. When two sides can’t agree you go to court. You know how this works. Except in Wisconsin.

There is a scene in the 1970’s movie classic, "Network," when the TV anchorman Howard Beale finally snaps. “I’m a human being” (expletive deleted) rants Beale, “my life has value.” Value, yes, but God help us if we get sick.

A possible misdiagnose that led to a patient's losing her limbs may prove to be the case that blows the cap off medical-malpractice lawsuits in Wisconsin.

In the eight years since the state enacted a cap on the amount of damages a plaintiff can collect in a medical malpractice case, a Milwaukee judge's decision to award an amputee $15.75 million more than the damages cap is the exception to the rule, the woman's attorney said Monday.

A Milwaukee woman and her husband have been awarded more than $25 million in a medical malpractice case.

A suspended Wisconsin attorney who moved to Florida now faces disciplinary action for allegedly mishandling client money and ignoring requests for information from both her clients and investigators.

Gov. Scott Walker signed 62 bills on Tuesday, including several bills that may affect legal proceedings.

Doctors and other health care providers could apologize to patients without worrying about whether the statements could be used against them in court under a bill that has passed the Wisconsin Senate.

After Wisconsin legislators failed last year to pass a bill that would have let doctors tell patients “I’m sorry” without fear of legal consequences, a nurse-and-doctor pair of Republican lawmakers has resuscitated the proposal.

Two Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation that would allow parents to sue if a their unborn child dies as a result of someone's wrongful acts, but it would do so by redefining state law to say life starts at conception.

Two Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow parents to sue if their fetuses die as a result of someone's wrongful acts, including medical malpractice.

A new report says Wisconsin's medical malpractice insurance fund is rebounding from a massive transfer and the economic downturn.

2011AP2654, 2012AP108 Estate of June Anderson, et al. v. Bartel

2011AP2809 Satorius v. Proassurance Wisconsin Insurance Company, et al.

2011AP1795 Vasquez, et al. v. Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund, et al.

When it comes to medical malpractice cases, “everybody doesn’t like something, but nobody doesn’t like” mediation.

2011AP522 Armagost, et al. v. Gundersen Clinic Ltd., et al.

A doctor who made a non-negligent misdiagnosis regarding an emergency room patient with stroke-like symptoms could be liable for failing to inform the patient about the availability of a non-invasive diagnostic test that would have definitively identified his condition, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in affirming judgment.

2011AP594 Puls, et al. v. Marshfield Clinic, et al.

2008AP1972 Jandre v. Wisconsin Injured Patients & Families Compensation Fund

Communication failures by health care professionals may contribute to the soaring litigation against providers, but some medical malpractice defense lawyers dispute the existence of such a direct relationship.