Case Results

Surgery Errors

Young girl becomes a paraplegic during surgery to correct adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, due to the negligence of the anesthesiologist, hospital nurse circulator, and neuromonitoring team (2013)

Nursing Home
Stage IV Pressure Ulcer

Elderly resident develops multiple Stage IV decubitus ulcers, osteomyelitis, and dies as a result of the nursing staff’s failure to timely turn and reposition the resident (2002)

Nursing Home Dehydration

Elderly resident becomes severely dehydrated and dies as a result of the nursing staff’s negligent and abusive failure to provide water (2002)

Nursing Home Neglect

Elderly resident develops multiple pressure ulcers and dies, due to the negligence of the nursing staff (2002)

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Middle-aged man suffers blunt force trauma and is diagnosed with TBI and post-concussive syndrome (2008)

Lasik Malpractice

A young woman, who is not a suitable candidate for surgery, becomes permanently disabled following the performance of Lasik, after developing dry eye syndrome (DES), with recurrent corneal abrasions, and unrelenting neuropathic eye pain (2021)

Stage IV Pressure Ulcer

Elderly patient develops massive sacral decubitus ulcer, which destroys any remaining quality of life (2002)

Choking on Food

Patient chokes on food and asphyxiates to death after receiving the wrong diet (2003)

Sacral Decubitus Ulcer

Patient dies from Stage IV pressure sore, as a result of negligent care received at a health care institution (2004)

Suicide in Hospital

Suicidal patient is admitted to hospital at shift change, forgotten and left unattended by staff, and found dead hanging hours later (2010)

Suicide in Psych Hospital

Psychiatric patient dies by suicide as a result of lack of proper suicide risk assessment and lack of adequate observation (2014)

Home Health Sexual Abuse

Elderly woman is sexually abused by home health care aide (2001)

Suicide in Hospital

Suicide in Hospital. Known suicidal patient is given the means (bedsheet), opportunity (15-minute observations), and environment (locked bathroom) in which to die by suicide (2011)

Tardive Dyskinesia

Psychiatric patient develops tardive dyskinesia following prolonged and excessive administration of antipsychotic medication (2018)

Ophthalmology Malpractice

Eye doctor negligently injects lidocaine into a patient’s optic nerve during a retrobulbar injection, causing patient to arrest and suffer profound brain damage (2015)

Federal Tort Claims Act

Nurse at Audie L. Murphy Memorial Veterans’ Hospital negligently inflates a catheter balloon in the patient’s urethra, rather than bladder, which causes urosepsis and death (2021)

OB/GYN Malpractice

Young wife and mother dies on the operating table during laparoscopic surgery, after the surgeon blindly advances a trocar and pierces the abdominal aorta.