Fall at Nursing Home
Settlement Amount is Confidential The patient fell during on two different occasions during his stays at the Nursing home causing his prior hip operation to become displaced necessitating additional operations
Store’s Failure to Put Mat at Entrance During Rainstorm
$700,000.00 Plaintiff entered the store’s vestibule during a rainstorm which caused the tile to become slippery. No mat was placed on the floor to protect customers. Plaintiff fell striking her head. The plaintiff had had a previously successful hemicraniectomy. The fall caused an open wound at the operative site resulting in infection and the need…
Choking on the wrong texture of food
Settlement Amount is Confidential A woman was living at a nursing home and due to inability to safely chew and swallow her doctor ordered he receives only food that was ground, moist and soft enough to eat without much chewing. Due to brain injuries, she was unable to appreciate these problems and needed to be…
Elevator Accident Results In Plaintiff’s Verdict
$176,000.00 While our client was in an elevator carrying boxes weighing approximately 40 pounds, the elevator suddenly descended. It jerked and dropped abruptly causing our client to be thrown forcefully to the floor. As a result she sustained a tear of the ligaments of her right knee, cervical sprain and strain and bilateral carpal tunnel…
Sponge Left in Patient During Kidney Transplant
Settled For 7 Figures The plaintiff was on dialysis for years while waiting for a kidney. Finally, he received the call. Soon after the operation, he began to develop a fever and his stomach became swollen. His creatinine level shot up indicating that the kidney was failing. The doctors went back in and discovered that…
Death of a Gunshot Victim Due To Hospital Nursing Negligence
$1,500,000.00 Death of a gunshot victim due to hospital nursing negligence. Staff improperly placed feeding tube causing his abdomen to become filled with formula causing infection, sepsis, and death
Lack of Supervision at Psychiatric Hospital Leads to Patient’s Death
$185,000.00 A severe mental condition necessitated our client’s admission to a local psychiatric hospital. While under the care and custody of the hospital, our client ingested an overdose of medication, which caused her death. Suit was filed which alleged improper supervision of our client and the lack of security in regard to visitors. It was…
Over Sedated Emphysema Patient Dies While Doctors Stand Idly By
$200,000.00 A 68-year-old retired City of Philadelphia recreation director was admitted to a local city hospital for treatment of difficulty breathing as a result of emphysema. In the middle of the night, the oxygen levels in her blood dropped and she became disoriented. Without first examining her, a resident ordered the nurse to give her…
Pressure Injuries
$400,000.00 An elderly man was sent for rehab to a central Pennsylvania facility after breaking his leg at his son’s home on Thanksgiving. The facility was owned by a local hospital. He lived at the nursing home for six weeks, without the therapy he needed to start walking again and, thus, never getting out of…
Improper Emergency Room Care Causes Child’s Death
$725,000.00 After falling at home and injuring her back, the parents took their ten-year-old daughter to the emergency room of a local hospital. The child could not walk and had to be carried by her parents into the hospital. X-rays taken of her back showed no spinal damage. During her stay at the emergency room…