A Madhya Pradesh Consumer Forum has ordered ₹11 lakh compensation after an Ayurvedic compounder allegedly administered a saline infusion mixed with Polybion, Aciloc and Dexona without tests, leading to the death of a 27 year old man in Khargone district in December 2014. The IV reportedly triggered sudden deterioration minutes after administration, with the patient collapsing soon after.
Medical negligence cases in India are rising rapidly with 65,000 cases filed in 2025 across courts and consumer forums. Legal scrutiny is shifting from clinical errors to documentation lapses, digital evidence, consent forms and telemedicine practices. Experts warn that poor paperwork and record keeping are increasingly leading to compensation and criminal proceedings against doctors and hospitals
The NCDRC has clarified an important legal principle in a medical negligence case from Maharashtra, holding that “no cure is not negligence” and that failure of treatment alone cannot be equated with medical negligence. In a case alleging post injection radial nerve palsy, the Commission found no proof of negligent treatment and dismissed the complaint against the doctor.
Chandigarh Consumer Commission ordered Healing Hospital, gastroenterologist, neuromedicine specialist and plastic surgeon to pay ₹50 lakhs after a routine IV cannula led to compartment syndrome, gangrene and amputation of four fingers. The patient suffered 85% permanent disability. The judgment exposes serious lapses in hospital monitoring and patient safety.
The Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority case is a landmark judgment in medical negligence law. This article explains how courts can reject even expert supported medical opinions if they are illogical, unsafe, or unreasonable, and how the Bolitho test is applied in India and the UK today.
A detailed analysis of the NCDRC judgment in the Geetanjali Hospital, Udaipur case where nasal polyp surgery without pre-operative CT scan led to subarachnoid hemorrhage and brain herniation. The Commission upheld medical negligence but reduced compensation, laying down important legal principles for doctors.
A pregnant woman died at SMS Hospital Jaipur after being given the wrong blood group. Her blood type was recorded as A+, but later found to be B+. An inquiry found serious medical negligence, failure of cross matching and reverse grouping, SOP violations, and systemic hospital failure. Action and possible FIR may follow.
Medical negligence cases in India are rising, but there is no national database to measure their true burden. This article explains how the absence of reliable data, rising litigation, defensive medicine, and lack of tort reforms are harming doctors, patients, and the healthcare system, and why India urgently needs systemic legal and policy reforms.
A recent Gujarat High Court judgment has reaffirmed a crucial legal principle that a mere error in medical judgment or diagnosis cannot automatically be treated as negligence. The court held that negligence must be proved through strong medical evidence and not presumed from an unfortunate outcome alone.
Medical negligence case where a Foreign Medical Graduate doctor was held guilty for delayed diagnosis, misrepresentation of qualification and misuse of MD suffix, leading to a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and tubectomy. The consumer court awarded 20 lakh compensation for permanent reproductive harm and mental trauma to the patient.
