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Medical Negligence Wrongful Death

Settlement for the death of a young woman who bled to death after giving birth. Concerning signs and symptoms of bleeding were ignored by both doctors and nurses. One of the doctors, after being informed of critically low lab tests on the patient’s blood counts, left the hospital without seeing the patient to go to the gym to work out. We were able to show that the hospital negligently hired and negligently credentialed physicians that missed the fact that this young, otherwise healthy, woman lost so much blood that she ultimately went into cardiac arrest and died leaving her newborn baby without a mother. We uncovered that one of the physicians involved failed the board examinations multiple times, but the hospital hired the physician anyway. This physician also had multiple pending criminal charges for billing fraud, yet the hospital still retained the physician as an employee.

Catastrophic Birth Injury – Medication Error

Settlement for the catastrophic birth injury of a newborn baby whose mother was given an overdose because the nurse failed to follow medication safety procedures. We were able to show, by uncovering the medical record audit trail, that the nurse who negligently administered the overdose attempted to delete the evidence from the patient’s electronic medical record. As a result of the medication overdose, the baby suffered a catastrophic brain injury which resulted in the need for 24 hour a day care.

Catastrophic Brain Injury

Settlement for a catastrophic brain injury suffered by a young child because of the hospital’s failure to perform the required infectious disease prenatal testing on the child’s mother. As a result, the child will require 24 hour a day care for life.

Catastrophic Brain Injury – Failure to Protect Airway

Settlement for a catastrophic brain injury suffered by a young woman after experiencing problems with her airway after a surgery. Even though the doctors and nurses were aware that this patient was experiencing breathing difficulties, the doctor in charge of her care left the hospital and went to a personal appointment instead of staying with the patient and managing and protecting her airway. While this doctor was gone at a personal appointment, the patient stopped breathing and suffered catastrophic brain damage due to lack of oxygen. As a result, the patient was left in a vegetative state, unable to care for her two-year-old child.

Anesthesia Error

Settlement for a catastrophic brain injury suffered by a toddler during a dental procedure performed under anesthesia. Failure to monitor the toddler appropriately in the recovery room led to severe brain damage when the toddler stopped breathing due to excessive anesthesia and the failure to monitor appropriately.

Cancer Treatment Malpractice

Settlements for the failure to follow standard of care protocols for the treatment of childhood leukemia. This negligence resulted in the deaths of numerous children who otherwise would have survived had they been given the appropriate chemotherapy.

Negligent Failure to Timely Recognize Stroke

Settlement for brain damage for failure to evaluate and treat obvious signs and symptoms of an evolving stroke while the patient was in the patient was in the hospital for three days. By the time the hospital transferred the patient to a higher level of care, the patient had suffered permanent brain damage which could have been avoided with proper evaluation and treatment.

Negligent Failure to Treat Stroke

Settlement for permanent brain damage resulting from the failure to administer an adequate dose of clot buster in a patient with an evolving stroke.

Catastrophic Birth Injury

Settlement for birth injury resulting in permanent brain damage which occurred as a result of the nurses’ and the physician’s failure to adequately respond to very concerning signs on the fetal heart monitor tracing over many hours.

Catastrophic Birth Injury

Settlement for a birth injury resulting in permanent brain damage, caused by the failure of nurses and doctors to respond to multiple concerning findings on the fetal heart tracing over many hours.

Catastrophic Birth Injury

Settlement for a birth injury caused by the hospital’s failure to have an adequate on-call system, resulting in the OB nurses not being able to contact the on-call team when an emergency c-section was needed. We were able to prove the doctor involved lied in the medical records. This case was turned down by multiple other law firms due to concerns about the statute of limitations. We were successful in finding a legal theory to bring the case despite the statue of limitations and the fact that many years had passed since the time of the child’s birth.

Catastrophic Birth Injury

Settlement for a birth injury resulting in permanent brain damage due to the doctors and nurses failing to administer appropriate medications to the mother who was experiencing a prolonged seizure. This prolonged seizure deprived the baby of oxygen, resulting in brain damage which could have been prevented if appropriate medication had been given.

Catastrophic Birth Injury – Brachial Plexus Injury

Settlement for a brain injury caused by the midwives and nurses failing to properly respond to concerning signs on the fetal heart tracing over a period of hours. The healthcare providers also failed to do a proper risk assessment of the mother for a vaginal birth after previous c-section. The child suffered brain damage from lack of oxygen, and a brachial plexus injury (damaged nerves to the shoulder and arm).

Catastrophic Birth Injury

Settlement for brain injury caused by failure of the nurses and doctors to respond to concerning signs on the fetal heart tracing over a period of hours.  

Jury Verdict For Wrongful Death

The husband of our client was admitted to the Presbyterian Hospital in Clovis, New Mexico, for a suspected heart attack. The cardiologist negligently failed to administer a clot buster in a timely fashion. In addition, the nurses negligently failed to notify the doctor when his cardiac monitor showed that his condition was worsening. He was retired at the time of his death and the jury awarded $1.1 million for the value of his life aside from his earning capacity.

Jury Verdict For A Cut Common Bile Duct

Our client had his gallbladder removed by a surgeon at the Presbyterian Hospital in Espanola, New Mexico. During the laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal), the surgeon negligently severed our client’s common bile duct and common hepatic artery. While his medical bills were only approximately $35,000 at the time of trial, we demonstrated to the jury that our client was likely to need a liver transplant sometime in the next twenty years due to the negligence. In post-trial motions, the judge awarded almost $400,000 in post-judgment interest because the hospital’s pre-trial offer was so far below the jury verdict.

Jury Verdict For Wrongful Death

The mother of our client went to her Lovelace family practice doctor complaining of chest discomfort and shortness of breath. The family practice doctor did not perform a cardiac workup but instead told her she had chronic bronchitis. A few days after her last doctor’s appointment, she suffered a fatal heart attack and died at home. The most the insurance company for Lovelace Hospital offered prior to trial was $250,000.