Case Archives: Medical Malpractice
Although a doctor was on military duty while training for his residency, he was detailed to a private university when he provided treatment to the plaintiff. Therefore, it was decided that the United States could not be substituted as the defendant in the case because the doctor was not acting as a servant of the United States when said treatment was performed.
Settlement against physician and hospital following the death of a seventy-eight-year-old woman, who died from anoxic encephalopathy following an inappropriate dosage and combination of narcotic and anti-anxiety medications, and improper monitoring during MRI.
A judgment won by our attorneys against the United States was upheld in a case of medical malpractice, in which the physician failed to diagnose throat cancer.
Settlement reached in the death of 40-year-old patient who died from complications following exploratory surgery for infertility.
Settlement reached in a medical malpractice case against a hospital for failure to monitor and respond to a patient’s respiratory distress in the ICU resulting in the death of a 38-year-old mother of two young children.
Verdict awarded to parents of a newborn whose death resulted from doctor’s failure to respond to emergency during labor.
A physician’s failure to perform emergency CT to diagnose spinal cord compression resulted in paraplegia; settled before trial.
Settlement against a primary care physician following the death of a father of two children who died from myocardial infarction as a result of the defendant’s failure to appreciate the severity and cause of the patient’s complaints and failure to properly interpret the patient’s EKG readings.
Settlement against primary care physician for family of patient with multiple high risk factors who died from myocardial infarction.
Case settled after jury verdict in favor of our clients whose newborn child died because of negligent delay in performing a C-section delivery.