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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...