Injury: Death from delay in diagnosis of ovarian cancer Age of Patient at Injury: 52 years old Result: $850,000 Settlement Court: U.S. District Court, Philadelphia, PA Comment: Our client's children brought suit for the death of their Mother from the delayed diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is a very treatable form of cancer when [...]
Injury: Permanent colostomy and cognitive impairment Age of Patient at Injury: 11 months Result: $800,000 Settlement Court: Atlantic County, NJ Comments: Our client and his family brought suit for the failure of the hospital where he was delivered and the doctors attending to him to timely recognize and surgically treat a congenital bowel movement problem. [...]
Injury: Death of Patient from Stage IV abdominal cancer Age of Patient at Injury: 55 years old Result: $775,000 Settlement after Arbitration Court: Philadelphia, PA Comment: Our client was a 55 year old woman diagnosed with advanced (stage IV) abdominal cancer. It was known at the time of her fibroid surgery that she had an [...]
Injury: Permanent nerve damage and disfigurement with multiple reconstruction surgeries Age of Patient at time of Injury: 18 years old Result: $520,000 Settlement at Mediation Court: Philadelphia, PA Comment: Demonstrating that the Lewis Law Firm will take cases which we feel strongly about on a personal level, our client was an 18 year old student [...]
Injury: Sacral (lower back) bed sore aquired in hospital and requiring colostomy for a 25 year old paraplegic patient in a New Jersey Hospital Age of Patient at Injury: 25 years of age Result: $488,000 Settlement Court: Camden County, NJ Comments: Stage 4 bed sore (Hospitals like to call them "decubitus ulcers" because it sounds nicer) aquired by [...]
Injury: Radical Prostatectomy (Prostate removal) and radiation treatment with resulting sexual dysfunction and frequent urinary urge Age of Patient at Injury: 46 years old Result: $450,000 Settlement Court: U.S. District Court for Lehigh County, PA Comment: Our client was a veteran treated at the VA clinic by his family physician and his wife. Despite rising [...]
Injury: Injured ureter during obstetric surgery resulting in multiple surgeries to repair, chronic urinary difficulty and urinary tract infection and pain and discomfort Age of Patient at Injury: 37 years old Result: $350,000 Settlement Court: Lancaster County, PA Comment: Our client was a young mother who had a c-section with her second child. During the [...]