DEFENSE VERDICTS
Saxton & Stump Secures Defense Verdict After Less Than 30 Minutes of Deliberations In a Case Involving a Fall of a Patient
Saxton & Stump secured a defense verdict in a case against a hospital involving a fall of a patient while admitted to the hospital. Plaintiff claimed that the hospital failed to institute proper fall risk interventions. Through strong expert support on liability...
Saxton & Stump Attorneys Receive Defense Verdict in Case Involving a Wrongful Death Matter
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...
Saxton & Stump Trial Attorneys Obtain Defense Verdict in Case Involving a Neurosurgeon
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...
Saxton & Stump Attorneys Defend Claims Against an Interventional Pain Management Specialist
We successfully defended claims against an interventional pain management specialist who performed an epidural steroid injection (ESI) in the lumbar spine for pain relief. Plaintiff underwent spinal decompression surgery eight days later and has permanent cauda...
Saxton & Stump Trial Attorneys Receive Defense Verdict in Case Involving Two Family Medicine Physicians
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...
Saxton & Stump Obtains a Defense Verdict in an Esophageal Perforation Case
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 Secures Defense Verdict for Internist in Wrongful Death Case of Alleged Failure to Diagnose and Treat a Pulmonary Embolism
Saxton & Stump secured a defense verdict for an internal medicine physician and his practice in a case involving the death of a middle-aged patient. Plaintiff claimed that the internist failed to diagnose and treat a suspected pulmonary embolism on two separate...
Saxton & Stump Trial Attorneys Receive Defense Verdict within 45 minutes in Case Against a Family Medicine Physician
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...
Saxton & Stump Obtains Defense Verdict in Case Involving Complication During Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
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....
Saxton & Stump Litigators Awarded Defense Verdict in Opioid Prescription Wrongful Death Case
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...
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