Virginia (VA) Jury Awards $7.5 Million in Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer Case

June 5, 2009

Firm News, Medical Malpractice, Doctor Mistakes, & Surgical Errors in VA

A great result in a medical negligence case was recently achieved in the Spotsylvania Circuit Court of Virginia in a wrongful death case about a doctor’s error in treatment. According to an article that appeared in Virginia Lawyers Weekly, a jury awarded $7.5 million to the husband of a registered nurse who died from breast cancer. Eleanor Browder had noticed a lump in her breast
and had gone to see her family practitioner from Lee’s Hill Medical Associates in May 2003.

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Putnam General Considered Hiding John King’s Medical Malpractice Record

February 27, 2009

Blog, Medical Malpractice, Doctor Mistakes, & Surgical Errors in VA

The West Virginia Gazette reports shocking new evidence in the John King medical malpractice story. Court documents have revealed that the Putnam General Hospital in Charleston, West Virginia considered making a deal with King in order to get him to quietly resign from the hospital. The deal included restoring surgical privileges to the doctor who…

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How Railroads Try To Pay Workers Less on Railroad Case Verdicts by Claiming an Offset for Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) Disability Benefits

January 7, 2009

Firm News, Railroad Injury/FELA

The new strategy for railroads in railroad worker personal injury cases
(FELA cases), is to try to reduce the sums juries are requiring them to
pay by filing legal motions that ask judges to give them a “setoff” or
“credit” for the amount of money the railroad has paid to the Railroad
Retirement Board (RRB) for the employer’s portion of RRB Tier II
benefits (paid in the past by the railroad to the RRB).

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