Case Results

A young man died at hospital following routine surgery. We investigated and found out the hospital staff gave the young man 4-5 times the prescribed dosage of pain narcotics and failed to monitor him post-operatively for over 5 hours to see how he was recovering. The patient went into cardiorespiratory arrest due to the overdose or narcotics and died. Despite compelling evidence of negligence the hospital vigorously found the case for several years. The case settled shortly before trial.

A young man at a mental health facility suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury when he was attacked by another resident. Our initial investigation showed the facility was chronically understaffed. After a lengthy litigation process and numerous depositions we discovered that the two counselors in charge of residents’ supervision at the time the attack occurred were off playing cards, and the attacking resident had a known history of prior violence. The case was complicated because our client had several overlapping pre-existing conditions, but it was ultimately settled shortly before trial.

Our client suffered nerve damage in his right hand following the negligent administration of an arterial blood gas test by a hospital nurse. The hospital strongly denied any negligence on the part of their nurse, but through our investigation we discovered the hospital was understaffed. The nurse admitted under oath that she would often see over 60 patients during her shift, and we used the hospital’s own policies and procedures to show how the nurse had acted negligently. We offered to settle the case prior to litigation for $225,000.00, but the hospital refused to make an offer. The case went to trial two times—the first time was a hung jury but the second time was a unanimous verdict in favor of the Plaintiff and more than double what we offered to originally settle for.

Our client suffered two herniated discs in her neck that required spinal fusion surgery. Fortunately, she made a strong recovery after her surgery and the case settled at mediation.

Our older client suffered a herniated disc in a relatively minor automobile collision that required spinal fusion surgery. The defendant’s insurance carrier initially contested the case because they did not believe such a serious injury could occur in a minor “fender bender,” and contended the injury was pre-existing. Our client’s own insurance company also tried to deny the claim and initially refused to pay his surgical bills under his vehicle’s Med Pay coverage. We obtained testimony from our client’s surgeon that linked the cause of the herniated disc to the automobile collision, and we ultimately obtained the policy limits from both the defendant’s insurance carrier and our client’s underinsured motorist carrier. We also filed suit against our client’s insurance carrier for denying the Med Pay claim, and ultimately recovered the full policy limits plus penalties for attorneys’ fees and costs after discovering the insurance company had denied our claim even though they hired an independent medical examiner who told them the injury was caused by the automobile collision.

A man in his 60's was killed in a head-on automobile collision after a vehicle crossed the grass median of the highway and entered oncoming traffic. The vehicle that caused the collision only had minimal insurance, however our investigation of the case revealed another umbrella policy that had been previously undisclosed. The case settled for the insurance policy limits of $400,000.