Medico-legal news
South African news about medico-legal claims, medical negligence and the cases shaping them, gathered from the country’s news sites and updated daily. Headlines link to the original articles.
In the news
- Botched childbirth: Woman loses R6m medical negligence claim after three-year delay (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Medical Negligence Costs Billions, But SA Still Can’t Measure Patient Harm (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Proposal for medical negligence payouts to be staggered (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Eastern Cape’s legal fight threatens negligence payouts for cerebral palsy babies (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Michael-John Damant | Your AI tool isn’t accountable, you are: A liability warning for doctors (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Hospitals found negligent in teacher's stab wound treatment, leading to brain damage (opens the original article in a new tab)
- North West Health liable for negligence after teacher’s brain damage (opens the original article in a new tab)
- When the law thinks in straight lines: Why SA’s medico-legal crisis is more than a litigation problem (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Gauteng Health addresses concerns over medical negligence and financial misconduct (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Gauteng Health defends disciplinary action in negligence and misconduct cases (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Gauteng Health responds to scrutiny over negligence, misconduct cases (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Mpumalanga Health Department faces medico-legal claims of R6.3b - LNN - Network News (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie alleges medical negligence in heartbreaking letter about 21-month-old son’s death (opens the original article in a new tab)
- RAF medico-legal experts owed more than R121m as claims system buckles (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Mother awarded damages after losing womb in C-section negligence case (opens the original article in a new tab)
- Judge rules family can sue doctor for negligence following caesarean complications (opens the original article in a new tab)
- OPINION | The high cost of negligence in the public health system (opens the original article in a new tab)
- The high cost of negligence in the public health system (opens the original article in a new tab)
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