A Kansas City area resident was awarded $1.83 million after she developed transverse myelitis within 24 hours of receiving a flu vaccine. The patient lived and worked with her husband in good health until she received a flu shot at her annual physical exam. The following morning, she experienced severe sensory loss and numbness in both legs and feet....
Read MoreClient was driving her SUV to work during morning rush hour in the slow lane of three highway traffic lanes. The defendant driver of an eighteen wheel vehicle traveling in the center lane merged into client’s lane without warning, colliding with the side of client’s vehicle and forcing her off the roadway. Client’s vehicle flipped onto its side and...
Read MoreA 55 year old female died when her disabled vehicle that partially occupied a lane of traffic was struck by an eighteen wheel truck on a highway located in Jackson County. We brought suit on behalf of her three emancipated children. Dempsey Kingsland Osteen action: We obtained a complete copy of the extensive police file concerning the investigation of...
Read MoreThe opioid crisis has been created by many factors including physicians that do not adhere to guidelines for the safe prescribing of pain medications to patients with pain conditions. In this case, the prescribing physician allowed for the dispensing of pain medications many times over what was recommended by the Center for Disease Control leading to addiction and dependency...
Read MoreThe family of John Doe has settled a wrongful death case against a physician arising out of communication errors that culminated in Mr. Doe’s dying from cardiac arrhythmia. Mr. Doe’s death occurred after he was discharged from a Missouri teaching hospital without a commonly prescribed wearable device that administers a defibrillator shock to the heart to restore normal heart...
Read MoreClient, a 36-year-old master electrician, accompanied by a co-employee electrician reported to a fast food restaurant to replace a heating element on a hot food holding table. As was their customary habit in performing this task, the electricians turned off the circuit breaker that supplied electricity to the table to cut off all electricity to it. After replacing the...
Read MoreIn this case, a man in his fifties, with no prior issue with immobility of skin integrity, was hospitalized while on pain medications and otherwise in and out of consciousness. One of the important things in a situation like this is that the patient must be routinely repositioned in order to avoid the development of pressure sores. This wasn’t...
Read MoreAn 84-year-old patient developed pustular lesions on his face and died after a Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas City treated him with a drug he was allergic to. The suit was litigated in federal court by and alleged that staff at the VA Medical Center on Linwood Boulevard caused the patient’s death by giving him Ceftriaxone, and the death...
Read MoreI.V. Infiltration is often the source of terrible and unnecessary injury during hospitalization. Most patients admitted to a hospital will receive an IV containing fluids, medication, or a combination of the two. Several commonly administered IV fluids and medications have the potential to cause serious injury if the fluid escapes the vein and “infiltrates” into the surrounding tissue. These...
Read MoreOn May 2, 2014, the plaintiff, a 34 year old major in the United States Army, underwent a hysteroscopic myomectomy, a surgical procedure conducted within the confines of the uterus to remove fibroid tumors (also known as myomas). Two surgeons participated in the surgery. The plaintiff contended that the defendant primary surgeon, unaware that she had perforated the uterus...
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