Brandon E. Vaughn's Legal Cases (3)

Nursing home abuse and neglect

K.W. v. Nursing Home

Nov 03, 2014

OUTCOME: $200,000 settlement

K.W., age 74, was at a Minnesota nursing home for rehabilitation as she underwent palliative chemotherapy for her terminal breast cancer. She also had a number of other serious medical conditions that ... limited her life expectancy. K.W. had signed a Provider Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST), in which she gave the directive to provide “CPR/Attempt Resuscitation” if she had no pulse or was not breathing. A nursing assistant discovered K.W. to have irregular breathing and informed a nurse, who came in K.W.’s room and panicked. The nurse did not initiate CPR or any other life-saving procedures and instead, watched K.W. die. The Minnesota Department of Health conducted an investigation and documented neglect. This case settled shortly after it was put in suit for $200,000.

Medical malpractice

C.B. v. Hospital

Jan 01, 2014

OUTCOME: $1.25 million Settlement

Obtained a $1.25 million settlement for a now 69-year-old Minnesota woman who experienced a severe massive intracranial hemorrhage on the left side of her brain. Once the hemorrhage was identified the ... defendant neurosurgeon failed to remove most of it because he operated on the wrong side of the brain. Defendant doctor denied any wrong doing. The client experienced bilateral ataxia (lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movement), bilateral dysmetria (lack of coordination and inability to gauge distance leading to “overshooting” and “undershooting” the intended position), balance and walking difficulties, and partial dysarthria (difficulty articulating words) because the defendant doctor failed to remove the hemorrhage timely and injured healthy brain tissue when the doctor was operating on the wrong side of the brain. Defendant doctor argued that our client’s deficits would have been the same because the severe hemorrhage caused our client’s deficits and they were not caused by the doctor.

Wrongful death

Family of N.N. v. Transportation Company

N/A

OUTCOME: $900,000 settlement

Negotiated $900,000 settlement for the next of kin of a 75-year-old female immigrant who was killed in a vehicle collision.

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