Mentor, OH
Medical malpractice Lawyer at Mentor, OH
Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury
OUTCOME: Settlement Amount: $3,000,000.00
The Plaintiff was a kidney & pancreas transplant patient taking anti-rejection medications. He went to a dermatologist for a routine problem and was prescribed a medication that interfered with the ant ... i-rejection medications that he was taking. As a consequence, Plaintiff rejected both transplanted organs, became insulin-dependent and required dialysis treatments three times a week.
OUTCOME: Settlement Amount: $2,100,000.00
Plaintiff had a prior lumbar laminectomy and consulted a spine surgeon due to pain and cramping in his calf. The spine surgeon recommended a lumbar decompression surgery. Prior to surgery, the Plaintif ... f underwent an MRI that showed some abnormalities in the Plaintiff's thoracic spine. The results of the MRI were not discussed with the Plaintiff. The Plaintiff consented to a lumbar laminectomy and decompression. The surgeon performed a thoracic procedure in addition to the lumbar decompression. During the procedure, the Plaintiff's spinal cord was injured, resulting in severe chronic pain, as well as bowel, bladder and sexual dysfunction.
OUTCOME: Settlement Amount: $1,565,000.00
Plaintiff had severe scoliosis since childhood. He consulted a reconstructive spine surgery for surgical correction of his severe scoliosis. A preoperative MRI and CT scan revealed that the Plaintiff h ... ad a congenital spinal defect that made his spinal nerves subject to injury during the procedure. The surgeon failed to review the preoperative films during the procedure and injured the Plaintiff's sacral nerves, resulting in chronic pain, bowel, bladder and sexual dysfunction.
OUTCOME: Verdict Amount: $1,250,000.00
The Decedent was admitted to the hospital for a routine cardiac catheterization. Following the procedure, the patient suffered bleeding into his abdomen from the site where the catheter was introduced ... into his groin. Although the complication was initially recognized and addressed, the Decedent began to bleed again several hours later. Nursing personnel and the physicians responsible for his care failed to appropriately respond and the Decedent died from hemorrhagic shock.
OUTCOME: Settlement Amount: $1,250,000.000
Plaintiff presented to his primary care physician with blood in his urine on numerous visits over approximately 18 months. The physician failed to refer the Plaintiff for a urological consultation or ... perform a diagnostic workup to determine the cause of the blood in his urine. As a result, the Plaintiff's diagnosis of kidney cancer was delayed resulting in progression of the cancer, additional treatment and a diminished life expectancy.
OUTCOME: Settlement Amount: $635,000.00
Plaintiff went to the hospital with breathing difficulties. A chest x-ray demonstrated a mass in her right lung. The Plaintiff underwent a thoracotomy in order to obtain a tissue sample that was read b ... y the pathologist as a malignancy. Consequently, the patient's right lung was removed. It was determined that the patient suffered from a treatable fungal infection and that the removal of her lung was unnecessary.
OUTCOME: Settlement Amount: $475,000.00
The Decedent child had a congenital heart defect and required surgery to replace his mitral valve. During the operation, the conduction system of the heart was damaged - a known complication of the pro ... cedure which can be addressed by implanting a permanent pacemaker. The cardiologist who followed the child postoperatively failed to assure that a pacemaker was implanted in response to the persistent impairment of the conduction system of the child's heart. The child died as a result of a fatal arrhythmia.
OUTCOME: Resolved: $250,000.00
Plaintiff had a routine screening mammogram that was misread by the Radiologist as normal. In fact, a significant lesion was present and not identified. The error was discovered more than a year late ... r when the Plaintiff underwent another mammogram. Comparison of the films demonstrated that the lesion had significantly increased in size. As a result, there was a substantial delay in the diagnosis of her breast cancer, resulting in the need for chemotherapy and radiation treatment of the Plaintiff's breast cancer.
OUTCOME: Resolved: $700,000.00
The Decedent was a diabetic who underwent a number of surgeries for unhealed ulcers on his feet. During surgery at an outpatient surgery center, the Anesthesiologist failed to properly secure the Dece ... dent's airway. As a consequence of being deprived of adequate oxygen during the surgery, the Decedent suffered severe brain damage which ultimately resulted in his death.
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