DEFENSE VERDICTS

This wrongful death matter arose out of the Plaintiffs’ allegations that nursing staff negligently “forced” medication through an NG tube causing the patient to aspirate.  The Plaintiffs also brought individual negligent infliction of emotional distress claims in...

We won a defense verdict in a case involving a neurosurgeon who successfully performed minimally invasive spine surgery, following which his patient suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest and died.  Plaintiff claimed that the neurosurgeon should have ordered...

This matter involved two board-certified family medicine physicians and their treatment of the Plaintiff during four office visits over a two month period.  During these office visits, Plaintiff complained of subjective fevers, unintentional weight loss, and GI...

  Plaintiff claimed that our physician used an over-sized dilator during an esophageal dilation, a procedure used to improve difficulty swallowing.  Plaintiff also claimed the esophageal perforation caused permanent damage to Plaintiff’s ability to swallow solid...

Saxton & Stump secured a defense verdict in a case against a family medicine physician involving the death of a 45-year old from a heart attack while jogging. Plaintiff claimed that our client and his physician assistant failed to recognize that the patient’s...

  We represented an obstetrician-gynecologist who unknowingly and inadvertently placed a suture in a ureter during a laparoscopic hysterectomy. The injury was not discovered until Plaintiff was seen in the office roughly two weeks later by a different partner....

We represented a rheumatologist who prescribed increasing doses of opioids for 10+ years to treat severe neck and lower back pain not improved by surgery. The patient died unexpectedly in her sleep. Based on a toxicologist’s interpretation of postmortem blood...