MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
REPRESENTATIVES CASES
- Mock arbitration heard over three days to prepare for hearing of $250,000,000 dispute over calculation of charges for medical services.
- Alleged malpractice in placing counterfeit hardware in plaintiff during significant spinal surgery.
- Failure to diagnose imperforate anus in neonate.
- Lawsuit by family for Elder Abuse, against 3 successive healthcare providers. Issues involved the monitoring of the mother, a bedridden patient, and a change in her medication without consent.
- Emotional Dispute between family members over care of elderly mother. One family member, a former child actor, stood to gain by removing mother from health care facility and discontinuing her medication.
- Wrongful death lawsuit filed by family of elderly mother against well-regarded hospital and treating physician, alleging mismanagement of medication.
- A) Partial List of types of cases handled either as an attorney or Judge:
• Failure to diagnose various cancers
• Amputation of wrong limb
• Retained instruments
• OB/GYN ( wrongful birth and/or death, breast cancer misdiagnosis, unnecessary surgeries, prenatal / perinatal care etc)
• Pediatrics
• Adult Cardiac problems
• Iatrogenic problems
• Nursing errors
• Medication Errors ( both prescribing Dr. and Pharmacy)
• Neurosurgical problems
• Psychiatric
- B) Unusual Medical Cases
• Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis following dental surgery
• Atrial Myxoma together with Multiple Myeloma
