Easterling v. Tang
Jan 01, 2011OUTCOME: Settled for a confidential amount
A young man intended to climb Mt. Everest. He consulted his Seattle doctor who prescribed the wrong medications for high altitude sickness. The man followed the doctor's advice while on Mt. Everest a ... nd had to be flown off the base camp by helicopter. He was then flown to Kathmandu, then to Seattle where Mr. Maxwell represented him in a lawsuit against the doctor who made him sick. The case was featured in the April, 2013 edition of Outside Magazine.
