Edmonds Medical Malpractice Lawyers

Over the years Robert has handled many cases involving medical negligence of both adults and children, involving hospitals, doctors, lower tier health care providers and nursing home/elder abuse.

A brief list of some of the types of cases handled involving health care malpractice or nursing home negligence are as follows:

• Failure to diagnose breast cancer.
• Failure to diagnose throat cancer.
• Failure to diagnose larynx cancer.
• Failure to diagnose and timely treat a brain aneurysm.
• Failure to timely diagnose and treat a stroke
• Failure of a cardiac nurse to timely diagnose a bleed which resulted in a wrongful death of a post surgical patient
• Failure to timely diagnose and treat a throat cancer.
• Nursing home negligence  caused adult to be catastrophically brain injured.
• Failure of HMO review films and to diagnose a fracture in a minor child which led to post-traumatic arthritis and multiple level joint fusions in the foot.
• Failure to remove a towel/sponge during surgery which caused ongoing abdominal pain for many years up until removal.
• Failure to diagnose and timely treat or repair an esophageal perforation
• Child birth cases and cerebral palsy.
• Wrongful Death.
• Hospital negligence in failing to timely treat a hospitalized patient and follow hospital protocols in caring for a patient’s tracheostomy
• Failure of a physician’s assistant to timely diagnose and treat an arterial stroke in the patient’s eye
• Failure of a midwife to secure timely intervention of an medical doctor/OB-GYN before the baby suffered catastrophic brain damage in-utero.

Examples of various child birth cases handled are:

• Hospital nursing negligence.
• Obstetrical negligence in failing to properly perform fetal heart monitoring.
• Failure to perform any fetal heart monitoring.
• Failure to perform C-section in a timely fashion.
• Failure to undertake proper prenatal care of a diabetic mom.
• Seriously injured babies during child birth some of which are permanently disfigured, brain damaged and catastrophically injured.
• Failure to read an MRI or MRA which showed a brain aneurysm and timely treating it before a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage.

WASHINGTON MEDICAL MALPRACTICE SUCCESS STORIES

• John and Jane Doe v. HMO facility: The health care provider failed to diagnosis an intracranial aneurysm which ruptured and caused permanent brain damage to a 54 year old mother, grandmother and house wife. She will never work again and need care 24/7.

Total Settlement: $2,500,000+

• The Estate of Jane Doe v. Hospital: A retired patient went in for heart surgery and removal of an intra-aortic balloon pump from her femoral artery in her leg. After the IABP was removed, the client bled internally. The bleed was not timely diagnosed post-surgery and the patient bled to death.

Estate Settlement: $750,000.

CONTACT EDMONDS MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAWYERS

For a free evaluation of any potential medical malpractice, hospital negligence, nursing negligence, nursing home negligence or birth defect case involving a potentially negligent health care worker, whether it’s a physician, hospital or HMO, feel free to contact a Edmonds Medical Malpractice attorney by e-mail at rob@kornfeldlaw.com or 1-(800) 282-4878. We are more than happy to make ourselves available to speak to you at your home, in our office, at a hospital or other location convenient for you.