Failure to recognize suicidal ideations ultimately carried out.
Defendant neurosurgeon caused permanent spinal cord injury while performing neck surgery (cervical laminectomy), resulting in paralysis. Plaintiff’s expert witnesses testified that, under no circumstances, should the neurosurgeon have struck/nicked our client’s spinal cord during neck surgery.
Plaintiff sought care from an optometrist for poor visual acuity. Despite aggressive treatment, the patient lost much of her vision and had to retire.
Our client reported severe back pain over the course of several hospital visits. His severe back pain was spontaneous and unrelated to recent injury or trauma. Defendant physicians and hospitals committed numerous acts of medical malpractice through their failure to order an MRI which would have revealed a spinal epidural abscess. When the abscess was finally diagnosed, our client had sustained permanent paralysis.
Medical Malpractice procedure involving surgery to the cervical spine resulting in loss of use of legs.
A 2-year-old suffered a significant brain injury as a result of untreated abdominal distension caused by a perforated duodenum, which led to cardiac arrest. The patient will remain in a vegetative state for the remainder of her life.
We represented a 60 year old gentleman who underwent multi-level laminectomy with placement of hardware. The patient developed a postoperative spinal epidural hematoma causing C5 quadriplegia.
Plaintiff suffered partial paralysis as a result of a spinal cord injury during a negligently performed pain management procedure.
($5,000,000.00 in compensatory damages and $5,000,000.00 punitive damages) Judgment against a physician for criminal assault.
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.