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Failure to Diagnose/ER Doctor/vascular incident (aortic aneurysim)

Case Description: Medical negligence/failure to diagnose

Court/Date: Suffolk Circuit Court 1999

Outcome: Jury verdict of $700,000.00

Staff: James C. Lewis, Attorney

What happened: We represented the estate of a 56-year-old retired FBI agent (plaintiff's decedent) who reported to his family doctor with a 3-day history of chest pains radiating into his jaw together with intermittent visual disturbance. His family physician claimed that he referred plaintiff's decedent to the emergency room with a provisional diagnosis of impending vascular accident. The emergency room physician diagnosed the plaintiff's decedent has having a sore throat and denied receiving a report from the family physician of an impending vascular accident. The emergency room physician released the plaintiff from the emergency room with an appointment with an ENT doctor and conducted no diagnostic test. Four days later the plaintiff's decedent died at his home of an dissecting aortic aneurysm. The autopsy revealed that the dissection was between 3 and 6 days old.

Legal strategy: Plaintiff's counsel immediately retained the chief of cardio-thoracic surgery at Yale Medical School to support his case. Because of the conflicting testimony of the family practice doctor and the emergency room doctor, a lawsuit was filed against each of them and they were allowed to "point the finger" at each other.

The results: Case was tried to a jury in Suffolk Circuit Court who returned a $700,000.00 verdict against the emergency room physician.

Awarded: $700,000.00

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1294 Diamond Springs Road
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
Phone: (757)-460-7776
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