Verdicts & Settlements

Before she was born, our client’s pregnant mother was rear-ended by a minivan. The collision impact resulted in a pelvic fracture. Shortly after her baby’s delivery, an MRI revealed that the baby had suffered a brain hemorrhage/bleed which caused developmental delays and permanent brain damage/injury. Our expert witnesses believed her brain was damaged, before birth, as a result of the force of the collision.

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.

2-year-old child died from complications after swallowing defectively designed toy magnets.

Plaintiff sought care from an optometrist for poor visual acuity. Despite aggressive treatment, the patient lost much of her vision and had to retire.

Settlement of two wrongful death claims resulting from workers who died when a barn under construction collapsed during a severe storm.

Elderly blind pedestrian was struck by a turning vehicle while crossing the road in the crosswalk.

Our client sustained severe burn injuries as a result of a workplace accident. Both his employer and an independent contractor failed to provide adequate safety guards and warnings in a workplace setting.

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.

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.

Birth injury resulting in cerebral palsy.

Young child died as a result of physician’s negligent failure to recognized and treat infectious disease.

Emergency room physician failed to recognize signs of meningitis and discharged patient to home. Patient died of meningitis within the next 36 hours.

Permanent birth injury due to prolonged labor.

Drowning death due to defendant’s negligent failure to maintain safe premises.

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.

Faulty wiring resulting in death of the victim.

Failure to timely diagnose stroke resulting in permanent injury to victim.

Our client went to an emergency room complaining of severe back pain. No MRI was performed and she went on to suffer from paralysis. A subsequent MRI determined that she had an infection (abscess) near her spinal cord. The infection caused irreversible damage to her spinal cord.

Failure to diagnose blood clot which led to partial paralysis.

Failure to timely diagnose cancer resulting in death of victim

Motor vehicle collision resulting in fatality.

Rear end collision resulting in back injury to the victim.

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.

Elderly woman fell at nursing home. She was to be assisted at all times. Subdural hematoma and skull fracture.

Failure to properly guard machinery resulting in death of victim.

Failure to recognize suicidal ideations ultimately carried out.

Our client was found to be at fault by the Ohio State Highway Patrol because the semi truck driver claimed our client went left of center. Our investigation and expert witnesses showed that the semi truck driver actually went four feet left of center and killed our client in his own lane, resulting in a favorable settlement for our client’s children.

Box Truck failed to brake and rear ended a stopped vehicle resulting in several broken ribs and crush fractures to 3 vertebrae of the driver.

Settled a case on behalf of the estate of a patient killed due to a hospital’s failure to place him back on blood thinner post heart surgery.

Plaintiff’s father went into the hospital for a knee operation. He was taken off his prescribed heart medication for the purpose of the surgery. Unfortunately the patient was never put back on his required medication and suffered a massive heart attack and died. The case was settled prior to a lawsuit being filed for $575,000.

Settled the case of a nursing home patient rendered paraplegic due to a nursing home’s negligence and failure to properly monitor a spinal abscess.

Pedestrian struck by distracted truck driver death.

Rear end collision resulting in back injuries.

Failure to give tpa; caused progression of stroke effects.

Motorcyclist hit pedestrian causing elbow injury.

Babysitter negligently left blanket in crib of infant resulting in death.

Failure to act upon an ominous CT finding resulting in a delayed diagnose of lung cancer and death.

Patient underwent surgery on lower leg. Afterwards, she developed severe swelling which her physicians failed to recognize and treat. The swelling caused tissue death and infection, leading to permanent calf weakness and severe permanent scarring.

Pregnant female presented to hospital emergency department with influenza-like illness. Despite CDC warning/admonition, patient was not prescribed Tamiflu. Patient went on to develop pneumonia and died. Fetus was delivered successfully before mother died. Case settled for an undisclosed amount.

Failure to supervise minors operating ATVs on private property.

A failed fuel tank patch resulted in the driver of a bull dozer being exposed to diesel fuel and fire causing serious injury.

Negligently performed lasik surgery resulting in eye injury.

Failure to recognize symptoms of acute myocardial infarction; death.

Young girl had a severe allergic reaction to a component in a popular shampoo causing her to go into anaphylactic shock. She survived but with some residual brain damage.

A jury returned a verdict against a central Ohio urologist who destroyed a man’s spleen in an attempt to blast kidney stones in what would otherwise have been a routine procedure. Attorney Curtis Fifner of the Donahey Law Firm in Columbus, Ohio, said that the jury awarded 100% of what he argued the damages were worth for his clients! Fifner said that he has never heard of another case in which a jury awarded 100% in a medical malpractice case. “This is highly unusual”, said Fifner. Fifner further indicated that he would pursue pre-judgment interest in the case since an offer to settle was never made.

Settled a case on behalf of a client seriously injured by a drunk driver.

Jury returns a $553,000 verdict for a contested automobile red light case tried by attorney Curtis Fifner of the Donahey Law Firm.