DEFENSE VERDICTS

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...

  We represented a hospital and a general surgeon in a 5 -day wrongful death trial involving allegations that the surgeon, anesthesiologist, and anesthetist failed to timely recognize, diagnose, and treat an evolving pericardial effusion and ensuing cardiac...

We represented a gastroenterologist in a case involving a colectomy and colostomy necessitated by a colonic perforation following a colonoscopy.  The plaintiff had claimed that the physician deviated from the standard of care by performing a colonoscopy that was...

We represented an Emergency Department physician and the nursing team in a case involving an alleged delay in diagnosis of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia in conjunction with their decision to transfer the patient to a children’s hospital.  Specifically, Plaintiffs...

We represented a general surgeon and his practice in a medical malpractice action for an injury to a pulmonary artery, resulting in a cardiac tamponade and sternotomy, during the placement of a central venous catheter (CVC).  Plaintiff was receiving the CVC to begin...

Our litigators represented two colorectal surgeons during a 5-day trial involving the death of a patient from ischemic small bowel obstruction.  Plaintiff claimed that there was a collective failure by the surgeons to order a CT scan of the abdomen upon admission to...