Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Lawyer

Recent Posts from Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Lawyer

• Lakawanna County Jury Awards $1.88 Million for Delayed Cancer Diagnosis that Resulted in Death

  A Lackawanna County jury found that a urologist violated the standard of care in his treatment of a 54 year old man who complained of urinary problems. Terrence Golden began seeking Dr. Milan Smolko in…

• Philadelphia Jury Awards $2.185 Million for Death Caused by Failure to Read Test Results

  A Philadelphia jury found that the death of a 51 year old man at St. Joseph’s Hospital was preventable and awarded $2.185 Million to his wife of 17 years. Zachary Jones was taken to St.…

• OB Negligence Resulting in Death of Mother and Baby Results in $8.8M Verdict

  A Passaic County, New Jersey jury found for the plaintiff in a case involving an obstetrician's failure to diagnose placental abruption (separation of the placenta from the uterus). Sigismondi v. Greene, PAS-L-3055-05 (N.J. Super. Ct.…

• Pittsburgh Jury Holds Hospital Responsible for Death of 24 Year Old from Brain Rupture

  A Pittsburgh jury awarded the estate of 24 year old Michael Rettger $2.5 million for wrongful death damages, but refused to award any money to his brothers for survival damages after stating on the jury…

• Medical Malpractice Verdict for Bowel Cut During Surgery

  A New Jersey jury awarded a woman $6 Million and her husband $500,000 for injuries she suffered when her OB-GYN (obstetrician) cut her bowel during a routine caesarean section ("c-section") in 2001. The doctor testifed…

• Medical Malpractice Suit Filed Against Hospital for Incorrectly Declaring Woman Dead

  I recently filed a Medical Malpractice Complaint against Beebe Hospital on behalf of a woman who was declared dead, left on a guerney waiting to be taken to the morgue and then noted by a…

• Child Declared Dead Was Alive - Lawsuit Settled

  In a case strikingly (and frighteningly) similar to one I am currently handling, a patient's family filed suit in California for the family of a child who was pronounced dead by a hospital and then…

• $1.6M Delaware Jury Verdict Following Wrongful Prescription of Sotalol

  The family of a 48 year old woman who died after being given Sotalol by her cardiologists for atrial fibrilation ("afib") was awarded $1.6 Million by a Delaware Jury on Monday, June 16, 2008. In…

• Delayed Delivery of Baby Results in $22.6M Verdict

  A 13 1/2 hour delay in the delivery of a baby girl who was stuck in the birth canal resulted in brain injuries from both the delay in delivery and from the mother's uterus repeatedly…

• New Jersey Jury Awards $19M for Delayed Delivery Resulting in Cerebral Palsy

  Brandon, a 10 year old boy who suffers from cerebral palsy, severe brain damage and blindness as a result of an obstetrician delaying in the diagnosis of his mother's pregnancy complications in 1997 was awarded…