LANSING, MI — Michigan lawmakers are considering medical malpractice reform that opponents say would make it harder to successfully sue doctors. Lawmakers, doctors, patients and attorneys debated ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Wayne County jury awarded a mother and her 13-year-old son $120 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Henry Ford ...

When a treatment goes wrong at a U.S. hospital, fear of a lawsuit usually means "never daring to say you're sorry." That's not the way it works at the University of Michigan Health System, where ...

Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation last week that strengthens the state’s medical malpractice tort laws and provides additional protection against lawsuits to physicians. The ...

Many physicians feel compelled to order unnecessary tests or procedures that often result in excessive treatment to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits. However, defensive medicine practices ...

University of Michigan Health System has released a new paper to help hospitals emulate the Michigan Claims Management Model for handling patient harm and malpractice concerns. The paper reviews the ...

In most cases, when doctors or hospitals realize they have a malpractice problem on their hands, their first instinct is is to throw up a protective wall of silence to protect themselves legally--even ...

Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor sentenced to prison for sexually abusing hundreds of women and girls, said his case was not criminal and should have been ...