In a hospital emergency department, doctors treat a wide variety of health conditions. Emergency medicine physicians will treat patients for conditions that range from routine health problems to life threatening health crises. Upon entering the emergency department of a hospital, a patient is assessed by a triage nurse, who determines the level of seriousness of the patient’s condition, prioritizing...
Read MoreThe insurance company for the truck driver and trucking company defendants initially offered $375,000 to settle this case. After we filed suit and took depositions of the truck driver and the President of the trucking company and its Safety Director, the defendants requested a mediation which accomplished settlement in the sum of $5 million. Missouri Lawyers Weekly cited this...
Read MoreWe filed this case against seven hospital physicians because of communication errors that resulted in our client being discharged from the hospital without a life-saving cardiac device designed to intervene in the event a patient experiences a heart attack. Approximately four days after his discharge, our 58 year old client experienced a myocardial infarction that resulted in his death....
Read MorePlaintiff, a 38 year old master electrician, suffered mild to moderate brain damage when he sustained an electro shock injury while repairing a hot food holding table. Plaintiff alleged liability on the manufacturer for failing to install a ground wire, a standard safety device installed on electrical equipment, which would have prevented the table’s metal casing from being energized....
Read More$7.25 million was awarded to the family of a twenty-five year old worker who fell to his death from a high rise building. The young man left behind a wife and three daughters. The worker was untrained and inexperienced and was in his first hour on the job when he was caused to fall to his death. This case...
Read MoreClient, a 71-year-old retired but active male required gallbladder surgery and underwent a two and a half hour laparoscopic surgery. Within twelve hours of the surgery having been completed, client began experiencing excruciating abdominal pain and distention. Client also experienced dangerously high blood pressure and a significantly increased respiration rate. The attending nurse summoned the hospital’s rapid response team...
Read MoreWe filed suit on behalf of a 30 year old female who suffered a serious low back injury when her SUV was sideswiped and forced off a highway by an 18 wheel over-the-road truck. The Defendant truck driver was changing lanes and merged into the lane occupied by our client’s vehicle when the collision occurred. The Defendant truck driver...
Read MoreRelatives of Decedent, Jane Doe v. CDE Trucking Company & Driver (Truck/Passenger Vehicle Collision Case) Decedent, Jane Doe, was driving to work on an interstate highway when the front left tire of her vehicle went flat. The Decedent’s disabled vehicle then came to a rest such that it was straddling the right lane of the three lane westbound highway...
Read MoreThis case was filed on behalf of the mother of a 58-year-old resident who died at Defendant’s residential care facility. The resident had suffered from severe mental retardation since he was an infant. The resident also suffered from multiple other conditions including dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). The resident’s medical records clearly indicated that he had a history of aspirating food....
Read MoreThe massive recall in 2009 and 2010 of more than 8 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles due to a sticky accelerator pedal has prompted an equally massive increase in voluntary recalls in the automotive industry. 2010 saw the fourth-largest amount of voluntary recalls since the U.S. started recording recall data in 1966. A total of 20.3 million vehicles were...
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