Verdicts & Settlements
Representative Verdicts & Settlements Greater than $250,000
$3,800,000 – failure to diagnose and properly treat bacterial endocarditis
$3,200,000 – verdict/settlement ob/gyn and nursing negligence involving birth of premature baby
$2,950,000 – failure to properly treat lupus
$2,700,000 – birth injury
$2,650,000 – failure to diagnose and treat a severe subarachnoid hemorrhage; death
$2,650,000 – failure to properly perform an intubation; death
$2,500,000 failure to diagnose and treat spinal subdural hematoma resulting in paraplegia
$2,400,000 – verdict; failure to diagnose lumbar herniated disc causing cauda equina syndrome
$1,650,000 – food poisoning; death
$1,475,000 – failure to properly perform anesthesia during oral surgery
$1,500,000 verdict – lack of informed consent and negligence in performing appendectomy
$1,070,000 – radiation overdose during cancer therapy
$1,025,000 – severe hemorrhage following catheter removal; death
$1,000,000 – failure to diagnose and properly treat compartment syndrome in young boy
$1,000,000 – failure to diagnose and timely treat acute myocardial infarctions; death
$800,000 – improperly performed hemilaminectomies
$750,000 – concussion; no loss of consciousness; traumatic brain injury – motor vehicle accident (uninsured motorist claim), obtained full policy limits
$740,000 – deliveryman’s fall through negligently maintained steps; shoulder injury
$703,000 arbitration award – motor vehicle accident/ankle and heel fracture
$700,000 – failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism; death
$600,000 – nursing home negligence; pressure ulcers; death
$575,000 – failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism; death
$550,000 – product liability – industrial vacuum explosion causing serious leg injury
$500,000 – failure to diagnose lung cancer; death
$500,000 – failure to properly perform laparoscopic bilateral inguinal hernia surgery
$500,000 – exposure to carcinogenic coke oven emissions; death
$441,619.72 verdict – herniated cervical disc surgery causing spinal cord trauma to man on social security disability
$400,000 – failure to properly perform a therapeutic/diagnostic paracentesis of patient on liver transplant list; death
$370,000 – failure to properly treat kidney stone resulting in loss of kidney
$341,000 – dram shop act – minor; death
$320,000 – verdict; failure to diagnose pulmonary embolism; death
$300,000 – failure to timely diagnose and properly treat abdominal aortic aneurysm; death
$290,000 – failure to diagnose left hip/pelvis fractures on x-ray
$280,000 – podiatry malpractice
$275,000 – transection of facial nerve during parotidectomy.
$275,000 – failing to properly perform kidney biopsy; death of elderly man
$267,500 – failure to properly perform sclerotherapy of facial/scalp varicose veins
$262,500 – failure to timely diagnose carcinoma of the colon; death
$210,000 – dog bite causing scarring