Hallway Medicine in Ontario: When Overcrowded Emergency Rooms Lead to Medical Malpractice
When overcrowded Ontario emergency departments contribute to delayed diagnoses, premature discharges, or death, the legal standard of care does not bend.
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CPSO v Fenty: A Suspension for Failing to Respond to Patients and the College
A family physician was suspended for three months after failing to complete a patient’s insurance forms, release another patient’s records to their lawyer, and cooperate with the College’s investigation. A look at why unreturned records are treated as misconduct, and what discipline does and does not do for an injured patient.
CPSO v Iracleous: Billing for Care He Never Provided, and Revocation
An emergency physician was struck off after billing OHIP $125,353 for services he never rendered, including critical care and cardioversions with no record they ever happened, and then refusing to cooperate with the College’s investigation. A look at why records integrity and the duty to cooperate sit at the centre of physician accountability.
When Surgical Errors Become Criminal: Rare but Real Cases in Canada and the United States
Most surgical errors are addressed through civil litigation and professional discipline. In rare cases, criminal liability can follow. An honest look at the threshold.
Forget v Gibb: A Surgical Complication, a Failed Repair, and No Breach of the Standard of Care
In Forget v Gibb, 2026 ONSC 626, the Ontario court dismissed a surgical negligence claim and delivered a sharp critique of the plaintiff’s expert.
Pediatric Tonsillectomy Death Lawsuit at McMaster Children’s: Coverage in the Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton Spectator coverage of the Hanans family’s $2.5 million lawsuit against Hamilton Health Sciences over the 2024 death of a four-year-old following routine pediatric tonsil surgery.
Unanswered Telemetry Alarms, a Fatal Arrhythmia, and a Wrongful Death Settlement
A settlement on behalf of the family of a man admitted with a heart attack who died overnight after his telemetry alarms went unanswered by hospital staff.
Reistad v La Berge: Bowel Injury, Informed Consent, and the Need for Expert Evidence
The Supreme Court of British Columbia dismisses a prophylactic laparoscopic hysterectomy bowel injury claim where the plaintiff led no expert evidence. Informed consent, the modified objective test, and the indispensability of expert evidence.
JB v Bailey: Admitted Negligence Is Not Proof of Causation in a Birth Injury Case
Dr. Bailey admitted that her management of labour was negligent and that it caused a hypoxic brain injury at birth. The plaintiffs still lost, because they could not prove that the brain injury caused the child’s lasting impairments. JB v Bailey is an Alberta decision, persuasive only in Ontario, but it is a clear reminder that admitted negligence and admitted injury are not the same as proven causation.