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  Published in: The Press-Enterprise Jury awards $12 million in cardiac-arrest ruling The Rancho Cucamonga patient suffered brain damage after breast enlargement surgery. By Tim Grenda The Press-Enterprise RANCHO CUCAMONGA A Rancho Cucamonga jury on Monday awarded $12 million to a woman who was left severely brain damaged two years ago after breast-enlargement surgery....

  Published in: Los Angeles Daily Journal Why Should Victims of Malpractice Subsidize Insurer Profits? By Bruce G. Fagel In 1975, there was a crisis in the delivery of medical care to the citizens of California. For reasons which had more to do with poor investments than any increase in jury awards for injured...

  Published in: Contra Costa Times Blue Cross overturns medical group’s decision — at least for now By Julia Appleby - Staff Writer After more than a month of worrying and waiting and dealing with lawyers, Maleck Manteghi finally knows he’ll be able to take care of his comatose wife, at least for a...

  Published in: Daily Journal [PHOTO NOT SHOWN] caption: DIGGER — Attorney Bruce G. Fagel attributes his success at trial to aggressively exploiting all opportunities, especially evidence that has not been revealed before trial. Name: Bruce G. Fagel, M.D., J.D. Name of firm: Law Offices of Bruce G. Fagel & Associates. Location of firm:...

  Published in: La Opinion De acuerdo con el doctor Bruce G. Fagel, en 23 países del mundo existe un índice de mortalidad infantil más bajo que el que se reporta en este país. Dicha aseveración fue parte de su testimonio presentado ante la subcomisión de salubridad del senado que preside el senador Edward...

  Published in: California Law Business In June, 1991 Bruce Fagel filed a medical malpractice suit on behalf of a newborn child who was delivered using forceps and suffered head injuries and paralysis below the neck. The defendants included obstetrician, Dr. Neil Jouvenat, who the insurance company, Southern California Physicians Insurance Exchange, maintained was...

  Published in: USA Today By Rachel Shuster USA TODAY The attorney for the family of Loyola Marymount basketball star Hank Gathers, who collapsed and died during a game March 4, said he won’t file any lawsuit until the NCAA tournament ends April 2. “If somebody is liable for Hank’s death, we can wait,"...

  Published in: La Opinion Un juez del tribunal superior de Santa Mónica aprobó ayer un arreglo extrajudicial por 1.4 millones de dólares, pagaderos durante el curso de la vida de Kathy Ron, quien al momento de nacer en el hospital do UCLA hace 8 años, sufrió lesiones irreparables en un brazo y cuello...

  Published in: Los Angeles Magazine By Samuel Greengard When Santiago and Zoila Cruz brought their newborn son, José, home from the hospital in December 1980, they knew he would never lead a normal life. Doctors said the boy was severely retarded. And, indeed, there was plenty of evidence to support that contention. When...

  Published in: Los Angeles Magazine Why are all these doctors peeling off their whites and picking up briefs? By Samuel Greengard When Santiago and Zoila Cruz brought their newborn son, José, home from the hospital in December 1980, they knew he would never lead a normal life. Doctors said the boy was severely...