wrongful death

The bill would have added the term “unborn child” to the state’s wrongful death statute, allowing parents to sue if a wrongful act causes the loss of a pregnancy.

The bill would allow parents to sue for damages in the death of an unborn child. Though bill sponsors say it's not abortion-related, attempts to make that clear in the text have so far failed.

A case that raised questions about whether Florida has a medical-malpractice insurance “crisis” has been dropped, according to a document filed late…

A federal judge has thrown out most of a lawsuit filed by the family of a black woman who died in December 2015, while police forcibly removed her from a…

A perennial battle between the business lobby and trial attorneys is heating up in the Florida Senate.

When 31-year-old Shannon Lawley died at a Brevard County hospital four years ago, her parents wanted to file a medical malpractice suit. But only spouses…

When Linda Porter listens to Foreigner or Styx, she thinks of her own long-haired guitarist, Pete Thomas.Pete, her son, died 12 years ago in a New Port…

LabCorp should pay$15.8 million for twice misreading Pap smear slides from a patient who later died of cervical cancer, the South Florida Sun Sentinel…

A University of Florida psychiatrist and addiction medicine specialist who has an addiction history of his own has gone on leave after running into…

In July, the University of Florida hired a psychiatrist to practice at UF Health Recovery Center and made him an assistant professor.Now, many are asking…