Experience

• Successfully represented a hospital in a matter which was brought on behalf of the estate of a physician who practiced at the hospital.  During the physician’s admission to the hospital for treatment of a recurrence of Hodgkin’s disease he died. During the admission, the patient underwent a transhepatic needle biopsy.  The plaintiff alleged that following the procedure, the patient bled.  Because this was not properly diagnosed and treated by his friends and colleagues, the patient died, according to the plaintiff.  While the co-defendant critical care physician and hematologist were found to be negligent, resulting in a multi-million-dollar verdict, the hospital was found to be not-negligent.

• Successfully represented an ER physician and hospital in a matter which also named the patient’s primary doctor who acted as an attending during the hospitalization and several surgeons.  The plaintiff’s decedent weighed in excess of 400 pounds.  Before coming to the hospital by way of ambulance, he sustained a fall at home. The plaintiff contended that there was a delay in diagnosis of a large rectus sheath hematoma which caused cardiac collapse and death.  The plaintiff’s decedent was an employed, married, father of two.  The plaintiff contended that the delay in diagnosis was brought about by misinformation with respect to the weight limits of the CT scanner.