VERDICT - $2,200,000.00 - Orange County - Medical Malpractice during a tonsillectomy against the Anesthesiologist and Hospital reulted in mild brain damage to a 5 year old boy.
VERDICT - $600,000.00 - Riverside County - Medical Malpractice of an Emergency Room Doctor and nurse in failing to diagnosis and treat dehydration resulted in the death of a 2 month old infant.
VERDICT - $1,000,000.00 - Riverside County - Drowning death of a 32 year old father in a public swimming pool.
ARBITRATION AWARD - $250,000.00 - Los Angeles - Medical Malpractice, failure to diagnois and treat Cardiac Artery Disease risk factors resulting in death of husband and father. (The decedent was disabled from a back injury and there was no loss of support. Under California law $250,000.00 for non-economic damges was the maximum recoverable.)
SETTLEMENT - $1,750,000.00 - Riverside -California Medical Malpractice -2 year old girl suffers brain damage as a result of doctors failure to diagnois spinal meningitis.
SETTLEMENT - $1,650,000.00 - San Bernardino - Medical Malpractice of a Neurosurgeon resulting in paraplegia of a 35 year old woman.
SETTLEMENT - $1,500,000.00 - Kern County - Medical Malpractice of Doctors and nurses in a Neonatal intensive care unit lead to sever brain damage of a 23 day old infant.
SETTLEMENT - $1,350,000.00 -Kern County - Medical Malpractice of an Obstetrician and nurses during delivery of a baby resulted in Cerebral Palsy.
SETTLEMENT - $1,500,000.00 - Riverside - California Medical Malpractice of an Obstetrician during delivery of a baby resulting in Cerebral Palsy
SETTLEMENT - $1,450,000.00 - San Diego - California Wrongful Death - Medical Malpractice of an Obstetrician who failed to diagnose and treat pregnancy induced hypertension resulting in the death of a 28 year old wife and mother.
SETTLEMENT - $950,000.00 - San Diego - Medical Malpractice - Anesthesiologist failed to properly monitor 35 year old woman during theraputic abortion resulting in severe brain damage.
SETTLEMENT - $775,000.00 - Santa Barbara - Medical Malpractice - California Wrongful death - Emergency Room doctor fails to diagnose pulmonary embolism resulting in death of 48 year old husband and father.
SETTLEMENT - $925,000.00 - Riverside - Medical Malpractice - Emergency Room doctor fails to diagnose heart attack resulting in death of 40 year old husband and father.
SETTLEMENT - $825,000.00 - San Bernardino - California wrongful death - Medical Malpractice - failure to diagnosis breast cancer resulted in the death of a 38 year old wife and mother.
SETTLEMENT - $625,000.00 - Riverside - Medical Malpractice - failure to diagnose and treat lung cancer results in death of 47 year old husband and father.
SETTLEMENT - $475,000.00 - Riverside - California Medical Malpractice - Negligence in performing a Laproscopic Cholecystectomy caused damage to the common bile duct.
SETTLEMENT - $400,000.00 - Northern California Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death - The negligence of a Nurse Midwife in failing to promptely deliver a perfectly healthy term baby who got stuck in the birth canal resulted in the babies death due to asphyxiation. This settlement was with the hospital who employed the nurse midwife.(California medical malpractice law limits the non-economic damages for loss of the love and affection of a child to $250,000.00)
SETTLEMENT - $400,000.00 - Northern California Medical Malpractice Wrongful Death - The negligence of a Nurse Midwife in failing to promptely deliver a perfectly healthy term baby who got stuck in the birth canal resulted in the babies death due to asphyxiation. This settlement was with the hospital who employed the nurse midwife. ( Sadly this case was against the same hospital and involved the same nurse midwife as the case described above it. The death of this perfectly healthy baby occurred exactly the same as the other one, just a year apart.)
SETTLEMENT - $250,000.00 - San Bernardino - Medical Malpractice during a Laproscopic Cholecystectomy caused damage to the Common Bile Duct.
