Lemer & Company has recently brought medical malpractice lawsuits to  successful conclusions with significant settlements:

• Action against obstetricians who failed to provide appropriate tests  to a pregnant woman, which prevented her and her baby from getting treatment that would have avoided her child having a life-long disabiity;
• Action against a prison nurse who failed to recognize the signs and symptoms of a heart attack and the urgency for treatment, resulting in a delayed diagnosis and treatment and resulting disability;
• Action against an ophthalmic surgeon resulting from an incorrect laser treatment for an eye disease which compromised the vision in one eye;
• Action against a laser vision correction company for blindness in one eye caused by the an incorrectly assembled component of the laser;
• Action against a neurosurgeon and nurses for their failing to recognize the need for prompt brain surgery for hydrocephalus and assuming  that  disturbing signs and symptoms were the result of sedating pain medication instead of a life threatening disease. The plaintiff sustained severe brain damage;
• Against an obstetrician for using incorrect techniques during a birth which caused severe shoulder dystocia and permanent paralysis of the baby’s arm;
• Against a neonatologist who used inappropriate procedures to insert IV lines in a newborn, thereby cutting off blood flow to the infant’s hand, resulting in amputation of the hand;
• Against a podiatrist and a medical device manufacturer for severe chronic pain caused by surgical malpractice and an inadequately tested and designed implant intended to cure flat feet;
• Against a cardiologist for having failed to prescribe an anti-coagulant, resulting in a severe stroke and disability;
• Against a neurologist for having prescribed a too high dosage of an anti-convulsant medication, resulting  Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, a rare life-threatening adverse cutaneous reaction caused by certain medications that caused severe injuries, a lengthy recorvery and permanenet severe disabilities;
• Against a radiologist, surgeon and nurse for failing to recognize signs and symptoms of a severe bowel obstruction, resulting in necrosis and removal of most of the plaintiff’s digestive tract; and
• Against a radiologist and neurologist for delayed diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis which prevented the plaintiff from receiving medication that could have prevented progression of the disease.

Details are subject to confidentiality agreements required by the defendants.