Health Care Litigation Defense Verdict Archives

The following is a representative list of defense verdicts from 2001-2003:

• Defendants’ verdict in favor of a medical group and its employed physician in a case where the plaintiffs sued due to complications arising out of a bilateral knee replacement surgery. This case was tried in U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Missouri. (2004)

• Defendants’ verdict in favor of a health care network and its employed physicians in a case where the plaintiff, the surviving spouse, claimed the defendants failed to order proper tests to diagnose decedent’s neurological condition. The case was tried at St. Louis County Circuit Court. (2003)

• Defendant’s verdict in favor of hospital and its physician in a case alleging retinal detachment and blindness arising from eye surgery performed on a six year old boy. The case was tried in St. Louis City Circuit Court. (2003)

• Defendant’s verdict in favor of a hospital in a case alleging the misdiagnosis of a spinal cord injury causing permanent paralysis. The case was tried in St. Louis City Circuit Court, the plaintiff obtained a $7,500,000 verdict against two co-defendants and a settling defendant, but no liability was apportioned to our client, the hospital. (2002)

• Defendant’s verdict in favor of hospital and its emergency room physician in a case alleging the failure to diagnose a heart attack, leading to the death of a 49 year old woman. The case was tried in St. Louis City Circuit Court and was one of the top ten Missouri Defense Verdicts of 2002. (2002)

• Defendants’ verdict returned in favor of the hospital in a case filed by the parents of a minor child, who alleged that during the repair of a hydrocele, the pediatric surgeon cut the child’s bilateral epididymis, causing sterility. Our expert pediatric pathologist who testified the pathology findings were actually embryonal remnants of epididymis, as opposed to true epididymis, and opined that the child was not sterile. Plaintiff’s counsel asked the jury for over $2,000,000. The case was tried in St. Louis City Circuit Court. (2001)

• Defendants’ verdict in a wrongful death action based on the death of the plaintiffs’ 16 month old baby. The plaintiffs had brought the baby into the hospital ER, where she was seen by a physician, and was discharged home. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendant physician was negligent in failing to admit the child to the hospital and properly treat her for symptoms which allegedly caused the death of the child. The case was tried in St. Louis City Circuit Court. (2001)