Verdicts And Settlements: Medical Malpractice

A Long History Of Results In Medical Negligence Cases

Attorneys with Lynch, Traub, Keefe & Errante, have been representing clients in medical malpractice cases since 1960. Our firm’s extensive experience in this area of practice has led to countless verdicts* and settlements* in favor of our clients. Examples include:

• Medical malpractice case settled for $2.85 million
  Passenger injured in a motor vehicle accident was hospitalized with serious injuries. Despite the fact that progress was being made during hospitalization, the defendant hospital and its agents removed a ventilator without properly and adequately evaluating readiness for extubation, which resulted in an emergency tracheotomy. The patient died. Action against defendant hospital and its agents.
• Medical malpractice case settled for $2.5 million
  Action against physicians and medical group for failure to diagnose bacterial endocarditis that led to a debilitating stroke requiring 24-hour care for the patient until his subsequent death five years later.
• Medical malpractice case settled for $2.15 million
  Medical malpractice action brought following the death of a 43-year-old married father of three young children who died following a cardiovascular event. Action against family physician who failed to follow up with testing or referrals, even though the victim had complained of chest pain, chest tightness and/or shortness of breath on exertion on multiple occasions over a three-year period.
• $1.3 million jury verdict: medical malpractice
  An action for professional negligence (medical malpractice) against a hospital radiologist who failed to properly diagnose a young boy’s clogged Ventricular Peritoneal Shunt, resulting in his death.
• $1.3 million settlement: medical malpractice
  An action for professional negligence (medical malpractice) against physicians who failed to properly manage a mother’s pregnancy and delivery, resulting in the birth of a child with cerebral palsy.
• $1 million jury verdict: medical malpractice
  An action for professional negligence (medical malpractice) against physicians who failed to properly read a biopsy slide, resulting in unnecessary surgery and other personal injuries.

* Results depend upon the unique facts of each case. We cannot guarantee results such as these in your case.