San Diego

Hiring a medical malpractice attorney in California will generally cost you nothing up front. These lawyers typically work on a contingency fee basis, which means they only get paid if they recover compensation for you. Instead of hourly billing, the lawyer receives an agreed percentage of the settlement or jury verdict they secure on...

  Published in: The San Diego Union-Tribune PASADENA — A jury awarded $4.3 million to the family of a 39-year-old woman who died following a surgical obesity treatment. Tracy Mayes went into Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena in 2000, for gastric bypass surgery. She died two months later, after going into septic shock from...

  Published in: The San Diego Union-Tribune A San Diego hospital agreed yesterday to pay $4.15 million to the parents of a girl born two years ago with severe brain damage caused by what the family’s lawyer labeled “outrageous” medical treatment. As part of yesterday’s settlement, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Grantville also admitted...