2024

Your medical or healthcare records—all the notes, lab results, X-rays, billing statements,  and more—that are generated from your interactions with healthcare providers (and others), are an important part of your medical care. The law guarantees that you have the right to access this information to help you make better medical decisions. Let’s look at...

Buchanan Firm is pleased to announce that Leslie Caliguri, Caiti Hill, and Lynnae Chaff have become associate members of the Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ). Our terrific support staff will be fantastic additions to this valuable organization that’s been fighting for justice for 77 years. About the MAJ The Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ)...

Indispensable: Someone who’s so important that you couldn’t manage without him, or her. A restaurant needs a maître d. A Broadway show needs a stage manager. And law firms need paralegals. A paralegal is a legal professional who collaborates with attorneys at a law firm to perform legal research, document drafting, and a host...

Did you know that 513,270 malpractice reports were made to a national database in the past 10 years? RP Legal Group examined the number of reports in a state per 100,000 residents. Researchers looked at more than 500,000 adverse action reports (AARs) across the U.S. in the past decade. Adverse action reports are what...

A Pennsylvania woman says that a surgical screw made by a Michigan company and implanted in her lumbar vertebrae during spinal fusion surgery has fractured and can’t be removed safely. Donna Mae Dolby of Lower Burrell, Pennsylvania filed suit in Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas against Stryker Corporation of Portage, Michigan and the...