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Botched Hysterectomy Leads to $750,000 Settlement

What Happened Our medical malpractice client suffered serious injuries to both of her ureters during a robotically assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy. The surgeon burned one of the tubes that connects her kidneys to her bladder with a cauterizing tool and then put a stitch through the other ureter. The surgical errors were only discovered in post-op…

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Pharmacist’s Error That Caused a Man to Take a Massive Blood Thinner Overdose Leads to $200,000 Settlement

What Happened Our Virginia medical malpractice client suffered life-threatening bleeding when a pharmacy dispensed a massive overdose of a clot-busting drug. The medication error hospitalized him numerous times. When the 61-year-old man who was in otherwise generally good health experienced sudden and painful swelling in his left ankle, he visited a vascular surgeon and was…

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Dental Malpractice – Dentist Who Failed to Clear Oral Infection Preventing Patient from Getting Important Surgery Results in $300,000 Settlement

Our client was a 43-year-old disabled individual who saw the defendant dentist because his teeth were extremely decayed with signs of oral infection in both his maxillary and mandibular teeth. One of his doctors advised him he needed to have the dental decay treated before undergoing a very serious surgery to address a life-threatening illness.  Important…

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