Medical Malpractice Cases Update: Attorney Charles Jerome Ware

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The following nationwide survey of medical malpractice settlements and judgments represents only a summarized fraction of these cases as presented very recently, and as studied by this law firm this week.

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(1) Over $2,000,000 Recovery:

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE – ANESTHESIOLOGY – ADVERSE REACTION TO EPIDURAL INJECTION DURING LABOR AND DELIVERY – SUFENTA ADMINISTERED IN TEST DOSE INTO SUBARACHNOID SPACE RESULTS IN BRAIN DAMAGE TO 25-YEAR-OLD.

In this medical malpractice matter, the 25-year-old female plaintiff alleged that the defendant hospital and its anesthesiologist were negligent for injecting the patient with Sufenta into the subarachnoid space which resulted in an adverse respiratory response and brain damage. The defendants denied the allegations of breach of the standards of care.

(Cook County, Illinois)

(2) Verdict over $1,000,000:

ANESTHESIOLOGY MALPRACTICE - FAILURE TO CLEARLY LABEL SPINAL CATHETER - BOLUS OF PAIN MEDICATION CAUSES ARRHYTHMIA - CARDIAC ARREST - INTUBATION - WRONGFUL DEATH AT AGE 87.

This case involved the allegation that the defendant anesthesiologist was negligent in failing to adequately communicate and clearly mark the decedent’s catheter as a spinal catheter (delivering medication directly to the spinal fluid) as opposed to an epidural catheter (delivering medication to the epidural space inside the bony spinal canal but outside the membrane called the dura mater). (Pennsylvania)

(3) Over $1,000,000 RECOVERY:

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - ONCOLOGY - NEGLIGENT FAILURE TO CONDUCT ADEQUATE BLOOD TESTING WHEN BREAST CANCER PATIENT TAKING TAMOXIFEN SHOWS SIGNS OF JAUNDICE - LIVER FAILURE - NEED FOR LIVER TRANSPLANT - PATIENT REMAINS FREE OF CANCER TEN YEARS AFTER DIAGNOSIS.

This was a medical malpractice action involving a female plaintiff, age 55 at the time of the alleged malpractice. The plaintiff underwent a modified radical mastectomy following a relatively early diagnosis of breast cancer and began a regime of Tamoxifen to reduce the chances of metastasis. The plaintiff contended that the defendant initial oncologist negligently failed to conduct adequate blood testing, thus eventually leading to liver failure.

(New York)

(4) Over $1,000,000 Verdict:

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - NEGLIGENT FOLLOW-UP CARE BY VASCULAR SURGEON AND ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON WHO HAD PERFORMED VENOUS BYPASS SURGERY ON ________ RIGHT ARM - NEGLIGENCE BY ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE PHYSICIAN IN PRESCRIBING MEDICATION FOR SUBSEQUENT FUNGAL INFECTION WHICH INTERACTED DANGEROUSLY WITH ANTICOAGULATION MEDICATION PLAINTIFF WAS TAKING - NEGLIGENCE BY LABORATORY WHICH FAILED TO EFFECTIVELY REPORT CRITICALLY ABNORMAL RESULT OF ________ ANTICOAGULATION LEVEL - HEMORRHAGE IN ________ RETROPERITONEAL SPACE CAUSING PARALYSIS AND PERMANENT NEUROPATHIC PAIN AND WEAKNESS.

The defendant orthopedic surgeon and the defendant vascular surgeon performed venous bypass surgery on the right arm of the 53-year-old male plaintiff. Both defendants treated the plaintiff postoperatively. After the bypass surgery, the plaintiff was prescribed Coumadin, a blood thinner that provided anticoagulation therapy.

(Massachusetts)

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