While medical devices save an untold number of lives and help treat disease, injury, and disability, sometimes devices make it onto the market with poor testing, design, or faulty manufacturing. Unfortunately, defective medical devices can do the opposite of what they are intended, potentially causing disability, serious injury, pain, and even death.Virtually any type...

The attorneys at Cannon & Dunphy S.C. won a $2.2 million verdict in a recent medical malpractice case. The victim was an 18-year-old young man who sustained a tibia fibula fracture. He sought treatment from a local orthopedic surgeon who surgically repaired the fracture. The young man was hospitalized for three days. On the...

In two separate incidents, women died of cervical cancer after their doctors repeatedly failed to diagnose them. Lawsuits were brought against the HMOs and they were ultimately settled for $6.3 million and $3.5 million. These cases eventually led to criminal charges against the medical laboratory. Patrick Dunphy represented one of the plaintiffs who eventually...