Atkins & Walker Law obtained a $3.65 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice case in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Atkins & Walker Law pursued a medical malpractice suit against a podiatrist’s corporate practice group for negligently cutting a patient’s nerve and tendon during a procedure.

Attorneys for a former inmate at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility recently filed a lawsuit against the state Corrections Department and Centurion Correctional Healthcare, accusing prison officials and workers of failing to take him to the hospital in time to prevent brain damage following an assault by other inmates in 2018.

As discussed in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ July 31, 2008 memorandum, the National Quality Forum has created a list of hospital-acquired conditions that it considers to be “Never Events.” “Never Events” are errors in medical care that normally do not happen in the absence of negligence and are considered “Serous Reportable Adverse Events.”

Atkins and Walker’s own Sam Walker is making Albuquerque a safer, better community to live in. KRQE’s Jakie Kent has the story.

Vince and Viv of Vandam are more than bandmates — they’re twin siblings. We talked to them about what it’s like to work with family.

When we sue negligent hospitals, medical practices, dental practices, nursing homes, insurance companies, and other corporations, we want to learn everything we can to figure out (1) what happened, (2) why it happened, and (3) how it can be prevented from happening again.