Attorney Randall Loftin Kinnard's Legal Cases

Medical malpractice

Donathan v. Southern Tennessee Medical Center, et al

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OUTCOME: $22,200,000.00

Bette Donathan was in an automobile accident in Winchester, Tennessee. She had a broken leg. She had surgery that was supposed to repair her broken right leg. However, as she was prepared for surger ... y, medical personnel inserted an epidural catheter for post-operative pain control. The epidural should have never been inserted because she was on blood thinner. Bette Donathan developed a spinal bleed that left her paralyzed from the waist down. The jury, in a trial that lasted almost two months, awarded the Donathans 22.2 million dollars. It was reported that the verdict for Bette Donathan was the largest malpractice judgment for an individual in the history of Tennessee.

Medical malpractice

Cody Wade v. Health South et al

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OUTCOME: $15,200,000.00

15.2 million dollar verdict. Randy Kinnard and Mary Ellen Morris of Kinnard, Clayton & Beveridge obtained the largest verdict in Weakley County history for his their 23 year old client. When Cody Wade ... was 17 years old, he was in a car wreck in Weakley County and suffered multiple injuries. He was air lifted to Memphis to The Regional Medical Center, a trauma center. He had a trachesotomy tube placed. Cody was eventually transferred to HealthSouth Cane Creek rehab hospital in his rural, West TN home town. His family doctor, Dr. Susan Lowry, became the attending doctor at the rehab hospital. He made progress. Finally, he could walk a football field with assistance. While he still had some moderate cognitive dysfunction, he was able to write messages and to mouth words. During the third week of rehab, Dr. Lowry decided to remove the trach tube. 18 hours later Cody complained that something is “caught in my throat.” Dr. Lowry and the nursing staff said it was mucous. Dr. Lowry went home. Cody kept saying that he could not breathe right. A few hours later his airway collapsed. They could not save him at the rehab hospital. Paramedics were called. Cody Arrested. CPR was started, but Cody suffered a huge brain injury. He is now severely disabled and confined to bed for life. He cannot speak or move.

Medical malpractice

Flenoy v. Meharry Medical Hospital

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OUTCOME: 6,500,000.00

6.5 million dollar jury verdict for woman who went into the hospital for a tubal ligation. The doctor put a small hole in her large colon during the procedure and did not recognize it. The woman deve ... loped severe peritonitis. She aspirated her own vomit and suffered a brain injury as a result of lack of oxygen.

Randall Loftin Kinnard's Legal Cases (3)

Donathan v. Southern Tennessee Medical Center, et al

Cody Wade v. Health South et al

Flenoy v. Meharry Medical Hospital