610-353-8531
17 Veterans Square
Media, PA 19063

Case Summary: Medical-Nursing Malpractice

A thirty-five year old woman attorney was hospitalized for a minor surgical procedure on her lower back. While still hospitalized three days after the surgery, she was given a walker by one of the floor nurses. The nurse failed to train the patient on how to use the walker properly in general, and failed to warn her that the walker could fold inward if it were not properly locked in an open position in particular. While the patient was using it in her hospital room, the walker folded inward, causing the women to fall face forward. As a result of the fall she sustained a fracture of a bone in her spine, which required extensive spinal surgery. We obtained a multi-million dollar settlement against the hospital.

Case Summary: Medical Malpractice / Failure to Diagnose Cancer

A thirty-five year old woman felt a small lump in her breast. On three occasions, she visited her family physician, who repeatedly misdiagnosed the condition as a generalized infection of the breast called mastitis. The physician did order a mammogram: however, the study was misread by the radiologist. The woman’s breast cancer progressed untreated for five months, until it was diagnosed by another physician. By then the cancer had spread to the woman’s lymph nodes. Despite two surgeries and aggressive chemo-therapy, the woman died three years later. We were able to prove that the delay in treatment sufficiently lowered her chance of survival from breast cancer, so as to meet the legal requirement of increased risk of harm. As such we were able to obtain a sizeable settlement for the woman’s estate against her medical providers.

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