Hospital medication error
$2.5 million gross amount of settlement
$1 million attorney’s fees
$139,000 litigation expenses
Meconium aspiration at birth causing respiratory arrest and profound brain damage to infant
$4.5 million gross amount of settlement
$1.8 million attorney’s fees
$185,000 litigation expenses
Negligent failure to timely remove displaced bone fragments from spinal canal following back surgery causing paraplegia
$1.85 million gross amount of settlement
$740,000 attorney’s fees
$96,000 litigation expenses
Negligent failure to monitor oxygen levels during pacemaker replacement causing hypoxic brain damage and death
$1.6 million gross amount of settlement
$640,000 attorney’s fees
$70,000 litigation expenses
Negligent failure to treat fetal distress by timely delivery causing asphyxia and hypoxic ischemic brain damage
$1.6 million gross amount of settlement
$528,000 attorney’s fees
$125,000 litigation expenses
Negligent failure to prevent dehydration and decubitus ulcers of nursing home resident
$1.5 million gross amount of settlement
$600,000 attorney’s fees
$72,000 litigation expenses
Negligent failure to treat postpartum hemorrhaging causing hemorrhagic shock and brain damage
$1.45 million gross cash settlement plus medical, rehabilitation and custodial care for life valued at $8.6 million
$580,000 attorney’s fees
$92,000 litigation expenses
Negligent failure to monitor nursing home resident causing hemorrhage from dialysis catheter and death
$1.4 million gross amount of settlement
$560,000 attorney’s fees
$75,000 litigation expenses
Negligent failure to prevent neonatal sepsis causing brain damage
$1.35 million gross amount of settlement
$540,000 attorney’s fees
$135,000 litigation expenses
Negligent failure to diagnose and treat epiglottitis causing wrongful death
$1.2 million gross amount of settlement
$480,000 attorney’s fees
$65,000 litigation expenses
Negligent spinal anesthetic by unsupervised CRNA causing brain damage and death
$900,000 gross amount of settlement
$360,000 attorney’s fees
$80,000 litigation expenses
Negligent failure to treat pancreatitis and hypovolemic shock causing death
$805,000 gross amount of settlement
$322,000 attorney’s fees
$85,000 litigation expenses
3rd degree burns of vagina and perineum caused by failure to properly cool sterilized weighted speculum during performance of D&C
$500,000 judgment
$200,000 attorney’s fees
$90,000 litigation expenses
