Almost every time, a breast cancer case is based upon a failure to diagnose.  Failure to diagnose, as a legal theory, comes with quite a few legal issues that make proper recovery more challenging.  Recently, Washington courts and practitioners were given guidance on one of these issues: the issue of how failure to diagnose claims interplay with informed consent claims. In December of 2012, the Washington Court of Appeals issued a case containing further guidance

While Breast Cancer Remains Prevalent, Early Detection Can Increase Long-Term Survival for Most Breast Cancers

In the United States, approximately 2.6 million women are currently living with breast cancer at any time, according to the US National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER). Statistically, women have a body 12% chance of developing breast cancer over the course of their lifetime, and historically 1 in every 36 die from breast cancer.

People are often perplexed at the verdict amounts in civil tort cases. Even sometimes to an experienced attorney, damages calculations, while rooted in clear guidelines, can have a counter-intuitive result. One such theory of damages that we want to try to explain in everyday terms is “loss of a chance,” and why sometimes damages may result to a person from what seems to be nothing at all. We will explain.