$52,000,000
Medical Malpractice
Medical malpractice judgment for the wrongful death of an army veteran undergoing plastic surgery in Gwinnett County, Georgia
$47,000,000
Medical Malpractice
A jury in Union County, Georgia, delivered a verdict against Union General Hospital and a local doctor for an untreated infection that led to the amputation of a patient’s arm and leg.
$22,500,000
Wrongful Death
Settlement in a wrongful death case.
$13,500,000
Brain Injury
Major hospital system settles medical malpractice case where they overmedicated a patient causing brain damage and death.
$10,000,000
Medical Malpractice
Medical malpractice settlement with hospital for birth injuries from inadequate monitoring and medication errors causing brain damage/cerebral palsy.
$9,000,000
Medical Malpractice
A Fulton County jury rendered a verdict against Resurgens and Yvonne Satterwhite, MD for wrapping a 7-year-old boy’s arm with Coban and an Ace wrap too tightly causing him a lifelong disfigurement and disability to his dominant hand.
$7,000,000
Medical Malpractice
A major Atlanta hospital system settles a medical malpractice case where its general surgeon performed a “four-quadrant, circumferential hemorrhoidectomy”, which other physicians abandoned 100 years ago, leaving his patient unable to have a normal bowel movement for the rest of her life.
$7,000,000
Birth Injury
Settlement in a medical malpractice case involving a major Atlanta hospital that burned a baby’s foot with an improvised heel warmer causing her a lifelong deformity and premature disability.
$7,000,000
Wrongful Death
Major Atlanta hospital system and physician settle medical malpractice case for mistakenly sewing a heart valve open and failing to fix it in time causing the patient’s death.
$3,400,000
Maternal Death
Settlement in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case for the failure to establish an airway for a mother being intubated in preparation for a C-section.
$3,000,000
Wrongful Death
Full policy limits settlement in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case in which anesthesiologists prematurely removed a patient’s breathing tube causing her to suffocate.
$3,000,000
Medical Malpractice
Major hospital system settles and doctor pays insurance limits for causing patient’s double blindness caused by an unnecessary medical procedure.
$2,750,000
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a patient who came to an Atlanta hospital with a stroke, but the patient waited for more than 12 hours for treatment as the hospital failed to transfer her to a more advanced hospital that could actually treat her with a mechanical removal of the clot.
$2,250,000
Wrongful Death
Settlement in a workplace death case in which a welder was crushed by a conveyor belt that had not been properly locked out and tagged out.
$2,250,000
Medical Malpractice
Major Atlanta hospital system settles medical malpractice case for its surgeon cutting median nerve in half during carpal tunnel release surgery.
$2,000,000
Medical Malpractice
A metro Atlanta dermatologist settles a medical malpractice case where he removed a nerve sheath tumor instead of referring his patient to an experienced neurosurgeon who could remove it safely, leaving her with a permanent foot drop for the rest of her life.
$2,000,000
Wrongful Death
Full policy limits settlement in an automobile fatality crash on I-85 involving a commercial vehicle.
$2,000,000
Wrongful Death
Premises liability settlement when a restaurant worker fell into an uncovered water meter hole and spilled hot oil on his face and body.
$1,900,000
Wrongful Death
Major Atlanta hospital system settles wrongful death case for placing BiPap mask on a patient who had been vomiting, causing him to vomit in the mask, aspirate, and die.
$1,500,000
Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death
Jury verdict in a medical malpractice/wrongful death case for the failure to transfer a 1-year-old suffering from myocarditis to a tertiary care center.
$1,350,000
Medical Malpractice
Major Atlanta hospital system settles Stage 4 pressure ulcer case.
$1,250,000
Medical Malpractice
Settlement in a medical malpractice case for inflating the balloon of a Foley catheter in a man’s urethra causing him to be totally incontinent.
$1,000,000
Medical Malpractice
Policy limits settlement against doctor convicted for trading pain pills for money and sexual favors.
$1,000,000
Medical Malpractice/Wrongful Death
Major Atlanta hospital system settles pressure ulcer case.
$1,000,000
Medical Malpractice
Policy limits settlement for an anesthesia error killing a patient after a liposuction procedure.
$1,000,000
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a patient who lost his testicle when urologist failed to come to the emergency room to evaluate the patient for a known testicular torsion.
$950,000
Wrongful Death
19 times the insurance policy limits for a serious motor vehicle crash.
$850,000
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a patient who went blind during eye surgery because the anesthesia team lightened her anesthesia to turn over the operating room more quickly and then failed to use safety monitors to ensure she was still under anesthesia, causing her to violently and repeatedly cough during the delicate eye surgery.
$850,000
Medical Malpractice
Settlement in a medical malpractice case where an ophthalmologist failed to timely refer the patient to a specialist to treat an infection causing blindness in one eye.
$750,000
Medical Malpractice
Hospital employees failed to help a patient to the bathroom shortly after a knee replacement surgery causing her to fall and break her leg where the knee replacement had just been performed.
$500,000
Medication Errors
A primary care doctor improperly used a medication called “beetle juice” on a 7-year-old girl causing her severe and debilitating burns.
$425,000
Medical Malpractice
Settlement in a medical malpractice case for failing to timely treat an infection from an unhealing episiotomy.
CONFIDENTIAL
Wrongful Death
A large metro Atlanta hospital system settles a case where it failed to monitor an elderly patient allowing the patient to fall and suffer a head fracture and a brain bleed that killed him.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a patient who fainted and fell off an exam table immediately after a blood draw and broke her neck.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a patient who fainted and fell off of an exam table immediately after a blood draw and suffered a rotator cuff injury.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a patient who suffered an IV infiltration.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a patient who had her ureter cut during a hysterectomy and the healthcare team failed to recognize the injury before discharging her from the hospital.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for an IV infiltration causing compartment syndrome and an extensive injury to the patient’s arm.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a patient severely burned by a Bair Hugger during back surgery.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a quadriplegic patient who was severely burned by heating.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a patient who was having a breast cancer biopsy and had a dirty needle that had already been used in another patient used on her.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a 9-month-old baby who suffered a severe pressure injury from a cast.
CONFIDENTIAL
Medical Malpractice
Settlement by a Georgia hospital for a severe extravasation injury to a patient.