South Carolina has paid $1 million to the estate of a man who died within days of it being discovered a blade was left in his ...

South Carolina’s Insurance Reserve Fund has paid the estate of a man $1 million after doctors left a blade inside his abdomen ...

South Carolina’s Insurance Reserve Fund has paid the estate of a Dorchester County man $1 million after doctors at the ...

A Burlington man has won a $1.2 million settlement against the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics after having a towel and silver staple left inside of him. 46-year-old Joseph Lee Caskey sued ...

An appeals court has upheld a family's $9.5 million jury award after a physician left an 18-inch sponge in a patient's abdomen that remained in her stomach for 5 years. During the surgery, performed ...

Laparotomy is the medical term for a type of open surgery of the abdomen. It allows surgeons to view the abdominal organs to diagnose and treat a variety of conditions. Here, we look at the types and ...

A 16-year-old boy was treated for midgut volvulus with midgut malrotation, a condition in which the intestines do not rotate ...

The estate of a man in South Carolina was paid $1 million by the state after a blade was left inside his abdomen during ...