Failure to recognize suicidal ideations ultimately carried out.
Permanent birth injury due to prolonged labor.
Failure to timely deliver distressed infant resulting in cerebral palsy.
Failure of an ophthalmologist to recognize the signs and symptoms of a growing optic nerve tumor in a child leading to permanent blindness in one eye and partial blindness in the other. The parties reached a confidential settlement.
Failure to respond to non-reassuring EFM pattern; birth asphyxia; cerebral palsy; spastic quadriplegia.
Patient presented to emergency department with localized back tenderness, an elevated white count, and other symptoms suggesting a spinal epidural abscess. He was immunocompromised secondary to chronic steroid use. Blood culture was positive for enterococcus faecalis. Patient then developed more worrisome signs/symptoms of leg weakness and immobility, and there again occurred a delay in diagnosing the patient’s spinal epidural abscess. By the time the patient was diagnosed, his paralysis was irreversible. The case settled for $1,790,000.
Failed “laserscopic” spinal surgery resulting in severe nerve damage to the patient and loss of bladder function.
Emergency room physician failed to recognize signs of meningitis and discharged patient to home. Patient died of meningitis within the next 36 hours.
Developmentally disabled patient suffered partial paralysis after being dropped by home health care nurse.
The client suffered a fractured neck when her home health care worker negligently used a Hoyer lift as a transport device, causing a serious fall. The case settled shortly before trial.
Woman rendered paraplegic as a result of physicians negligent treatment of low back pain and administration of pain injections.
Failure to timely diagnose stroke resulting in permanent injury to victim.