A California law requiring doctors to report individuals who pose a threat while driving can make a sympathetic case even more difficult to defend. Read on to see what happens when one doctor fails to report a person suffering from black-outs.

What should emergency department staff do when they can't determine a teen patient's medications, allergies, or medical history because of her silence? Read how a jury finds its own voice in this case of the week.

Litigating medical professional liability cases involves taking complex information and creating a simple story for the jury or arbitrator. Not including the patient in a treatment decision is just the kind of story that can overshadow all the other things that you’ve done for your patient.

For solo physicians the scenario can be quite common: two family practitioners share an office suite but are not partners. One physician decides to move on, offers his patient list to the other. What could go wrong?

Sometimes a danger warning can, quite literally, get in the way of patient safety.