A woman is admitted to the hospital. She suffers a fall on her right side. She is soon taken to radiology due to her complaints of right sided pain. Unfortunately, she is x-rayed on the left side. Of course, the x-ray shows nothing abnormal. Even her physician comes to her room and holds the x-ray and explains that nothing...
Read MoreWhile hospitalized, this mentally infirmed woman had to have a tracheostomy. The trach tube is something that requires regular maintenance and must occasionally be suctioned clear by a device made just for this purpose. The problem here was that the patient was mentally infirmed. She could not even read or write. The medical staff simply came to her room,...
Read MoreOur client, an 82-year-old retired but active female, sustained a complication in connection with the implantation of a neurostimulator. Pre-implantation, the client had experienced a long history of lumbar pain which was refractory to physical therapy, trigger point injections and medication. After undergoing a neurostimulator trial which substantially reduced her pain, client elected to undergo surgery for permanent implantation....
Read MoreOur client, a 59-year-old male, experienced episodic, low back pain during a six month period. His pain, mild at the outset, gradually increased to excruciating. Symptoms included fever and chills. Client sought treatment from his primary care doctor and an orthopedist and twice was admitted into a hospital for evaluation. Nevertheless, client’s true diagnosis remained undetected. Finally, a specialist,...
Read MoreDempsey Kingsland Osteen represented a young child and his parents in a case arising out of alleged child abuse perpetrated on a then two-year-old child at an area daycare. The child, who today has no memory of the abuse, was eventually diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He has received comprehensive psychological care which began soon after the abuse came...
Read MoreThis is one of those cases that still makes me angry. In this case, an off-duty nurse is hospitalized for the most routine of things – a knee that has been in pain. It was thought that she might undergo surgery. During the night, she is over-medicated. Despite the fact that she is behaving in a fashion consistent with...
Read MoreOur client, a male, then 22-year-old, was visiting a multi-family residence. Upon leaving, client stepped into a hole in a storm sewer grate as he was approaching his car. The client’s right leg was deeply lacerated and he sustained significant injury to his right knee when his knee, which was of greater circumference than the hole, slammed into the...
Read MoreClients, a mother, RC, and daughter, SB, were severely injured in a head-on collision requiring hospitalization and extended care. Dempsey Kingsland Osteen action Dempsey Kingsland Osteen’s investigation determined that he defendant driver had only $200,000 in auto liability coverage. Clients had an umbrella policy which included $1,000,000 of underinsured motorist coverage. Dempsey Kingsland Osteen arranged for a functional capacity...
Read MoreP. B. was born ten weeks premature and required supplemental oxygen and feeding via an umbilical venous catheter (UVC). Infants who are born premature often cannot be fed orally. They are fed nutritional fluid via a catheter which is placed through an umbilical vein. A UVC must be carefully placed. The tip of the catheter should be positioned just...
Read MoreMental patients on psychotropic drugs experience many effects from their drugs, one is dry mouth. In this case, the patient was supposed to be continuously monitored but, he was not. Instead, he was allowed access to the pantry where he opened a commercial sized container of peanut butter and while attempting to eat it choked to death. No one...
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