Case Results

Baby suffered brain injury, spastic quadriplegia, seizures as a result of failure of the nursing staff to recognize fetal distress and advocate for a cesarean section. Failure to provide proper facilities, personnel, and equipment to perform a timely emergency c-section. Failure to establish protocols and train staff regarding a high-risk patient.

Near drowning of young boy resulting in brain damage.

Fatal truck accident caused by excessive speed of the truck driver. Also uncovered evidence that truck driver had previously been in a similar wreck less than a year before this wreck.

Negligence in failing to remove a colon polyp and then in failing to monitor polyp allowing it to grow into undiagnosed colon cancer. Wrongful death. Defendant offered zero before trial.

Baby sustained hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) brain injury. Nurses failed to understand fetal heart monitor tracings. Improper documentation, improper use of Pitocin, and failure to perform timely C-section.

Baby sustained cerebral palsy, hypoxic brain injury due to failure to monitor baby in utero and perform C-section before oxygen deprivation occurred.

Baby sustained severe brain injury / cerebral palsy. Hospital was negligent in training and supervising nurses. Failure to monitor high-risk mother, failure to communicate with nursing staff, and failure to perform C-section.

Baby sustained brain injury due to failure to monitor preeclampsia and treat high blood pressure. Failure to properly interpret fetal heart monitor tracing, hospital negligence in failing to have protocols for high risk mother in labor, and failing to adequately train and supervise nursing staff.

Cerebral palsy / brain injury, secondary to failure to supervise resident student doctor. Negligence in estimating the baby’s weight, failure to properly assess mother’s inadequate pelvis, and failure to perform timely C-section.

Baby suffered brain injury / cerebral palsy. Failure to properly monitor a high-risk patient with gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia, and failure to perform timely C-section.

Baby sustained HIE. Misuse of Pitocin, failure to detect fetal distress on fetal heart monitor strips, and mismanagement of mother’s high blood pressure.

Brain injury / cerebral palsy, secondary to negligence in failing to perform timely C-section following ill-advised VBAC. Nursing negligence in failing to alert chain of command that obstetrician was attempting dangerous procedure, and failure to properly interpret tracings on the fetal heart monitor.

Baby suffered a brain injury as result of administration of Pitocin in violation of hospital’s own policy. Failure to monitor and treat the mother who was a high-risk pregnancy.

Failure to diagnose and treat pre-term labor of mother who was 27 weeks along. Failure to administer Tocolytic therapy, Terbutaline, and steroid therapy in violation of hospital protocols, resulting in wrongful death of twin in multiple pregnancy.

Failure to diagnose and treat abdominal bleeding following hysterectomy. Wrongful death of mother/grandmother.

Spastic Cerebral Palsy/ brain injury. Failure to monitor mother’s blood pressure and contractions, failure to help a baby in distress, and failure to perform C-section.

Baby sustained brain injury due to failure to stop an impaired physician from examining patient when a placenta previa was differential diagnosis, and patient was not in operating suite where emergency C-section could be done.

Brain injury caused by failure to stop Pitocin use pursuant to hospital policy, premature artificial rupture of membranes creating a risk of cord prolapse, failure to perform timely C-section.

Brachial plexus injury caused by misused vacuum extractor. Failure to avert shoulder dystocia.

Truck driver failed to yield. Insurance company initially blamed plaintiff.

Excessive traction causing nerve damage to the brachial plexus.

Confidential settlement. Medical negligence involving the misdiagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis.

Brain injury caused by failure to resuscitate patient following electrical injury.

Failure to diagnosis and treat infection resulting in sepsis.

Erb’s Palsy involving mother who was high risk for brachial plexus injury.

Failed attempt at VBAC delivery with uterine rupture. Failure to respond to fetal distress, and failure to have obstetrician monitor and treat high-risk patient.

Failure to monitor patient and failure to timely respond to cardiac arrest.

Electric company failed to maintain or repair a defective box. Child sustained hand injury.

Negligence by truck driver driving at unreasonable speed, causing traumatic brain injury to 60-year-old man. Settled for more than policy limits.

Accident involving two semi-trucks resulting in a back injury to our client. Policy limits.

Dump truck pulled out in front of our client. Insurance argued policy lapsed.

Brachial plexus injury caused by excessive force by the physician. Failure to monitor the patient and failure to attempt to avert shoulder dystocia.

Mismanagement of Pitocin, failure to recognize hypertonus and uterine tachysystole (excessive uterine activity). Failure to report a change of condition. Delayed C-section. Brain Injury.

Infection caused by sponge left in during surgery.

Client was in an accident involving a rollover. Paramedics stabilized the patient for transfer. Hospital staff failed to view x-ray that showed a possible fracture. Resident physician destabilized patient causing spinal cord injury. Policy limits.

Paralysis caused by radiofrequency ablation. Policy limits.

Failure to properly monitor prescription medications which continued use led to neurologic damage/patient abandonment. Policy limits.

Defendant ran a red light while talking on cell phone, causing traumatic brain injury to previously self-sufficient 80-year-old wife and great-grandmother. Policy limits.

Truck driver made a sudden turn in front of our client. Hip Replacement to an elderly passenger.

Stroke following carotid endarterectomy. Failure to monitor the patient after surgery and detect a stroke in progress. Patient abandonment.

Wrongful death of a Boy Scout on a monthly camping trip. Failure to protect Scouts in rain storm.

Failure to treat anaphylactic shock caused by injection.

Contested liability. $7,000.00 in medical bills. Defense offered $25,000 to settle.

Surgeon cut vein during hip replacement.

Failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism following surgery.

Failure to treat a patient who presented to emergency room with sepsis.

Hospital was negligent in failing to prevent stage IV decubitus ulcer (bed sore) from developing in a paralyzed patient.

Misplacement of IV and failure to treat cellulitis.

Sued bar for over-serving customer who left the bar and was hit by a car. Policy limits.

Auto Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Slip and Falls

We have had hundreds of settlements in this range involving cases where, thankfully, the injuries were not lasting. We have also had many settlements in this range where we collected all the insurance we could from the wrongdoer.