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Mental Patient with Condition Requiring Careful Monitoring Is Transferred to a New Facility – but No One Tells Them of This Patients Special Need for Monitoring – Death with a Few Days

This young man suffered from a compulsive disorder called polydipsia, a condition also known as compulsive water drinking. Believe it or not, this can kill. Despite this fact, the condition is one that can be safely monitored by limiting access to water and watching the patient. This was done successfully for several years. This patient needed to be transferred...

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V.A. Fails to Communicate Dire Report of Lung Lesion on X-Ray – Veteran Has No Idea He Has Lung Cancer – Cancer Progresses Without His Knowledge – Death

A veteran has a routine chest x-ray. The radiologist warns of a suspicious lesion on the chest of the veteran. Despite this, the patient is never informed. Two years are allowed to pass without the patient knowing of the dangerous condition that could have been successfully treated. Instead, his cancer became inoperative and fatal. During litigation, our lovable client...

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Chronic Pain Condition from Fall Caused by Dangerous Condition at a Multi-Family Residence  — $1 Million Settlement

Our client, a twenty-two year old male, had been visiting friends at a multi-family residence at night. Upon leaving, as he was approaching his car, the client stepped into a hole that had been cut into a storm sewer grate. The client’s right leg was deeply lacerated, and he sustained a significant injury to his right knee. He required...

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Study Shows Drowsy Drivers Causing More Auto Accidents

A recent study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety shows that drowsy drivers have been causing more fatal motor vehicle accidents than in the past. Incredibly, two out of every five drivers admitted to falling asleep while driving at least once; and 10 percent admitted to dozing off behind the wheel in the past year. Facts and Statistics...

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Failure to Diagnose Spinal Epidural Abscess — $1 Million Settlement

Our medical team was instrumental in helping us achieve a settlement in one of the most complex cases that our firm has ever litigated. Our client was a sixty year old male who was rendered paraplegic because of a late diagnosis of spinal epidural abscess (SEA). We obtained damages recovery from five board-certified physicians who practiced in four separate...

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Head-on Collision — $4 Million Settlement

Our client sustained multiple, serious injuries from a head-on collision that happened on the highway in Southeast Kansas. We settled this case without needing to file suit after we obtained a life care plan from a certified life care planner who itemized and priced all of the future care needs of the client. During the course of our working...

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Hospital Technicians Cause Displacement of Spinal Fracture Resulting in Paraplegia – $850,000 Settlement

Our client had recently retired from a blue collar job due to structural vulnerability in his spine caused by severe osteoporosis and severe ankylosing spondylitis. These diagnoses had caused the client’s spine to become brittle and prone to fracture and to degenerate such that he had developed a massive humpback. He suddenly experienced severe mid-back pain during a coughing...

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Medication Error at Hospital Results in Brain Injury — $1.5 Million Settlement

This case was cited by Missouri Lawyers Weekly as one of the largest medical malpractice settlements in the State of Missouri during calendar year 2016. The case settled as the result of the combined efforts of our medical team along with expert witnesses and lay witnesses that we identified through our investigation. In building the case, we gathered and...

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Negligent Monitoring of Blood Thinner Prescribed to Spinal Surgery Patient – $1 Million Settlement

We achieved a $1 million settlement within just four months of having presented this case to the defendant’s insurance carrier. In order to accomplish settlement of the case, we prepared comprehensive PowerPoint and demand letter presentations with the help of our medical team. In the demand package, we laid out the applicable medical literature including the FDA Black Box...

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Failed Gynecologic Surgery Case – $950,000 Settlement

Eleven law firms had rejected this case that involved a thirty-seven-year-old Kentucky resident who sustained multiple complications from gynecologic surgery. We felt that the case might have merit despite the many rejections because she had sustained nerve damage that created pain and dysfunction in her right leg together with many lower abdominal injuries. The client’s right leg injury suggested...

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