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OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  06.04.2019

Saxton & Stump Team Obtain Defense Verdict in Involving an Alleged Delayed Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis in an Infant

Our trial attorneys successfully defended several pediatrics providers and emergency department physician against claims that they failed to recognize an evolving serious bacterial infection and prevent bacterial meningitis. Specifically, Plaintiff...

OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  05.22.2019

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...

OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  03.05.2019

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...

OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  03.05.2019

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...

OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  01.09.2019

Saxton & Stump Clinches Defense Verdict in Less than 1 Hour in Complicated Thoracic Surgery Case

Saxton & Stump clinched a defense verdict in a complex thoracic surgery case involving the death of a 63-year-old man.  Plaintiff claimed that our thoracic surgery client improperly discharged the...

OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  09.17.2018

Saxton & Stump Secures Defense Verdict in Wrongful Death Neurosurgery Case

We represented a neurosurgeon and his practice in a case involving a patient who needed brain surgery for removal of an atypical (grade II) meningioma but experienced recurrence of the...

OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  06.21.2018

Saxton & Stump Litigators Obtain Non-suit and Defense Verdict in Cardiac Tamponade Case

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...

OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  06.20.2018

Saxton & Stump Secures Defense Verdict for Gastroenterologist in a Case Involving a Colonic Perforation

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...

OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  04.20.2018

Jury Awards Defense Verdict to Saxton & Stump Client in Wrongful Death Case

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...

OUR RESULTS  |  DEFENSE VERDICT  |  04.18.2018

Saxton & Stump Secures Defense Verdict in Case Involving Complication During Central Venous Catheter Procedure

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...