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$ 1,0000,0000 CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT : OPHTHALMOLOGY MALPRACTICE
This New Jersey medical negligence case involved a 45-year-old plaintiff maintenance worker who initially sustained injury to his right eye when a drill bit broke while he was drilling a hole into a metal plate at work, causing a large piece of metal bit to strike him in the right eye.
The plaintiff contended that the defendant emergency room physician negligently failed to advise
the co-defendant ophthalmologic surgeon that the CT-scan reflected the presence of an opaque
foreign object and the ophthalmologic surgeon negligently failed to properly read the CT-scan in conjunction with surgery, closing the patient while the foreign object (portion of drill bit) was still present. The plaintiff alleged that the object was abrading the retina and remained for seven days causing extensive inflammation and blindness in one eye.
Plaintiff contended that his vision in the affected right eye is essentially limited to counting his fingers, and he cannot drive. Plaintiff also maintained that he will be permanently precluded from working in the field of maintenance and that using tools such as saws is now very dangerous for him.
The plaintiff can work in other fields and the plaintiff's vocational expert would have discussed (had the case gone to trial) an approximate 20% reduction in plaintiff's earning capacity. The case settled prior to the plaintiff's retention of a medical expert on liability for $ 1,000,000. The settlement did not disclose the percentage paid on behalf of each physician.
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