In 2016, a woman suffered permanent brain damage due to medication mistakes after surgery. As a result of the mistakes, the woman’s entire personality changed, becoming more child-like and impulsive. We at the McArthur Law Firm took on the case and our aggressive...
Medical Malpractice
The McArthur Law Firm Secured $1.6 Million Verdict in Medical Malpractice Case
The is celebrating a huge victory on behalf of our plaintiff after six years of fighting. Attorneys Tracey Dellacona, Jessica Edmunds and Kathy McArthur tried this case, which involved medical malpractice. Our client was a 44-year-old...
Is This Pharmaceutical Liability Case the Deadliest in Medical History?
In 2013, a woman in her seventies was rushed to the hospital due to fungal meningitis. A year earlier, she had been taken to the hospital, sick with the same potentially deadly disease. Luckily, she survived her second bout with the illness, but not without a price....
Will Your Doctor Admit to a Medical Error?
When you go to the doctor, you expect them to be upfront and honest with you. The interests of your doctor should be to help you, even if the doctor you're seeing is checking up on a previous diagnosis from another doctor. So, would it surprise you to learn that this...
Can Medical Malpractice Turn Chemotherapy Deadly?
He was young, only 21 years old, when he was diagnosed with cancer. This California man was told that he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but a treatment was available. That man underwent treatment at Kaiser Permanente Santa Teresa Medical Center in August of 2005, but he...
Why Is the Victim of a Flesh Eating Bacteria Suing for Malpractice?
On May 25, 2015, a 34-year-old former marine went to her local urgent care center. However, the nurses and doctors failed to realize what her symptoms meant, and soon the brave veteran and mother of two was fighting for her life. Luckily, the woman survived, but at a...
You’ll Never Guess What the Third Leading Cause of Death in the USA Is!
We all know that heart disease and cancer are the leading causes of death in America, but do you know the third? Some of you probably think it's death by car accident or firearm, but you'd be wrong. It turns out that the third leading cause of death in the U.S. is...
Do Stem Cell Treatments Need To Be Regulated?
Have you heard of stem cell treatments? They have been touted as the miracle cure to all sorts of ailments. From degenerated knees, to heart disease and immunity conditions, stem cells can fix your ills... or can they? A new study from Cell Stem Cell-a scholarly...
When Does Rehab Become Malpractice?
Rehab is where you go to recover from an injury. It's supposed to make you healthier, supposed to help you recover the independence you lost when you fell ill. However, that's not what a new study found when it looked into rehab facilities. When Does Rehab Become...
Is America Being Infected By Malpractice? Can The Government Do Anything About It?
A man takes his daughter to the hospital for an appendicitis. Surgery goes well, and before he knows it, his daughter is recovering. Fast forward several months and the man receives a letter from the hospital. It asks that he get his daughter tested for HIV. Just what...
