Medical Malpractice Claims
Claim that failure to properly diagnose and treat a neurological condition of the brain resulted in a catastrophic loss of movement and speech woman who was an active wife, mother and professional
Claim that failure to order and schedule a colonoscopy resulted in death from detectible and treatable cancer.
Claims that off-label use of a prescription drug caused a mental disability.
In the last decade, Mr. Creo has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of medical malpractice claims. Many of the claims involved multiple defendants including hospitals, medical practices, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. Most of these cases involved death or catastrophic loss. Often there are complex insurance coverage matters or other difficult issues that must be resolved in order to achieve a global resolution.
Some examples of death claims include claims that arose from alleged failure to properly treat or diagnose:
A wide variety of claims have been successfully resolved in mediation. Some examples include:
Mr. Creo has resolved a significant number of cases involving birth trauma including claims involving alleged:
Many resolutions involve terms and conditions which benefit the community. For example, in a case involving the death of fetus while in the final days of gestation, the settlement included support for a non-profit foundation, established to provide assistance for funeral expenses of indigent parents unable to afford an appropriate funeral for newborns. Other cases involved providing educational activities or additional in-service training for medical care providers.
Settlements have included provisions to implement changes in procedures to reduce the risk of similar incidents.
Senior Care and Nursing Home
We have experience working with elderly patients, their families and caregivers and medical facilities, physicians and nurses. Claims are often complex given the extensive care required by some patients in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Representative cases include:
Claim that failure to properly diagnose and treat a neurological condition of the brain resulted in a catastrophic loss of movement and speech woman who was an active wife, mother and professional
Claim that failure to order and schedule a colonoscopy resulted in death from detectible and treatable cancer.
Claims that off-label use of a prescription drug caused a mental disability.
In the last decade, Mr. Creo has mediated and arbitrated hundreds of medical malpractice claims. Many of the claims involved multiple defendants including hospitals, medical practices, physicians, nurses and other health care providers. Most of these cases involved death or catastrophic loss. Often there are complex insurance coverage matters or other difficult issues that must be resolved in order to achieve a global resolution.
Some examples of death claims include claims that arose from alleged failure to properly treat or diagnose:
- A diabetic patient
- An elderly women with a fractured hip
- A young women with a postpartum hemorrhage following a caesarean section delivery
- Atracheotomy tube that dislodged
- A child infant who swallowed a foreign object
- Testicular cancer
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Post-operative bleeding
- Amedical instrument left in a patient following a surgical procedure
- Systemic bacteria illness
- Individual who was scheduled to receive a liver transplant but the operation had to be postponed due to a delay in obtaining lab results
- Administration of improper solution during surgery
- Improper reading of EKG
A wide variety of claims have been successfully resolved in mediation. Some examples include:
- Claim involving a women claiming dissatisfaction of cosmetic surgery Claim alleging the failure to properly identify a AVM (Arteriovenous Malformation) of a woman resulting in catastrophic injuries.
- Claim involving a disabilityfrom injection of steroids in her spinal cord
- Claim against a doctor and a hospital for failure to timely treat bleeding in brain causing a permanent brain injury.
- Claim by a young athlete that failure to monitor and respond to an infection following knee surgery caused long term disability
Mr. Creo has resolved a significant number of cases involving birth trauma including claims involving alleged:
- Failure to properly manage and monitor mother in labor and promptly recognize and respond to the clinical signs and symptoms of fetal distress including oxygen depletion
- Failure to properly treat infant born prematurely
- Improper delay and improper treatment following cardiac arrest of newborn
- ognitive impairment of child due to a delay in performing a cesarean section
Many resolutions involve terms and conditions which benefit the community. For example, in a case involving the death of fetus while in the final days of gestation, the settlement included support for a non-profit foundation, established to provide assistance for funeral expenses of indigent parents unable to afford an appropriate funeral for newborns. Other cases involved providing educational activities or additional in-service training for medical care providers.
Settlements have included provisions to implement changes in procedures to reduce the risk of similar incidents.
Senior Care and Nursing Home
We have experience working with elderly patients, their families and caregivers and medical facilities, physicians and nurses. Claims are often complex given the extensive care required by some patients in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Representative cases include:
- Improper administration of medication(s) causing pain and suffering and death
- Lack of supervision in which elderly people wandered off from an assisted living facility or nursing home and suffered injuries while lost
- Pressure sores and wound care
- Injury and death cases resulting from falls
- Assault and abuse cases while individuals were in nursing home