Earlier this year a jury awarded $21 million dollars in a case of unnecessary brain surgery. It wasn’t supposed to be brain surgery! FACTS – The patient was admitted to a hospital for treatment of a temporomandibular joint problem. She underwent a CT scan of her brain and was told that she required an emergency…
NATIONAL – A federal jury has awarded a couple $1.5 million for injuries the husband suffered after a hernia patch made by the Cranston firm Davol Inc. ruptured in his abdomen. After deliberating about two days, a jury found that the failure of Davol and its parent company, C.R. Bard Inc., to warn about the dangers of mesh…
NATIONAL – Recently a woman was awarded $2.35 million in damages after doctors at a hospital “misdiagnosed a kidney blockage, leading to an infection that had spread through her body. As a result of this misdiagnosis, part of one leg and part of one foot would have to be amputated.”
DADE COUNTY – According the the Miami Herald (5/21, Morales) reports, “A Miami-Dade jury has awarded a Sarasota man more than $14 million after deciding that the asbestos he inhaled in the 1970s caused his deadly abdominal cancer. Jurors found that chemical giant Union Carbide was negligent for selling asbestos fibers to other companies, which had…
BROWARD COUNTY – Accoring to the Bloomberg News (5/20, Van Voris) reported, “R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. must pay $29.1 million to Connie Buonomo, the widow of a Florida man who started smoking at age 13 and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 2008, a jury in Fort Lauderdale said. The unanimous verdict today by…
NATIONAL – Recently a jury has awarded $29.1 million in damages against a nursing home. The jury found the nursing home staff guilty of elder abuse in the death of the plaintiff. In response to “hearing testimony about the company’s finances,” jurors determined the companies should pay $28 million in punitive damages to the plaintiff’s estate…
A Florida resident who was left partially paralyzed after a botched steroid injection was recently awarded a $36 million malpractice verdict. The jury awarded her this verdict because her former pain management doctor used steroids that destroyed tissue in her spinal cord. She was being treated by the doctor for personal injuries suffered in a…
BROWARD COUNTY – A Broward County jury awarded $20 million in punitive damages to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer. The six-person jury found that Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds each shared a third of the responsibility for 68 year old smoker’s 1994 death and the smoker shared a…
ST. PETERSBURG – After deliberating for three (3) full days the jury delivered an $11.1 million dollar verdict in a medical malpractice case that could cost the hospital up to $8.7 million dollars. The verdict will likely be appealed as a spokesman for All Children’s Hospital pointed out that the hospital “was found only partially…
NATIONAL – A woman was awarded $8.5 million dollars in Ford SUV rollover – product liability case. The month long trial from 2005 centered around a rollover wreck of a Mercury Mountaineer (Ford) near Douglasville, Georgia. The accident killed two people and injured two others. The driver had her right leg amputated just below the…
