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| Nurse Administers Part of Epinephrine Intravenously Instead of the Ordered Subcutaneous Delivery - Woman Kept Overnight for Observation - Claims Heart Damage - Defendant Claims All Tests Were Normal - Defense Verdict. | |
| Man Gets Out of Bed Alone After Nurse Fails to Respond to Request for Assistance to Bathroom - Fall When Bed Moves as He Returns to Bed - Fractured Hip With Decline and Death - $125,000 Settlement. | |
| Failure to Treat Lack of Blood Flow in Leg and Foot Following Trauma to Leg - Amputation Above Knee Ultimately Required - $2 Million Settlement. | |
| Woman Falls and Fractures Hip After Waist Restraint is Removed - Plaintiff Claims Nurses Removed It - Defendant Claims Plaintiff Removed It - $127,188 Verdict. | |
| Failure to Properly Respond to Fetal Distress During Labor - Emergency Cesarean Section Ultimately Performed, but Baby Dies - $325,000 Settlement. | |
| Failure to Timely Deliver Child Blamed for Brain Damage - $1.36 Million in Settlements. | |
| Child Discharged Two Days After Birth With High Bilimeter Reading Severe Cerebral Palsy, Spastic Quadriplegia, Profound Hearing Loss and Upward Gaze Palsy -$7.75 Million in Settlements Before Defense Verdict. | |
| Failure to Provide One-on-One Supervision for Involuntarily Committed Man - Throws Table Through Fifth Floor Window and Jumps - Paraplegia - Defense Verdict. | |
| Failure to Have Gastrostomy Feeding Tube Properly Replaced - Death Due to Peritonitis Due to Tube Being in Peritoneal Cavity - $2 Million Verdict. | |
| Failure to Provide Proper Care to Long-Time Resident - Dehydration and Fecal Impaction of Vagina - Death - $525,000 Settlement. | |
| Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer Despite Report Finding Suspicion of Malignancy, Inverted Nipple and Palpable Mass - Cancer Diagnosed at Stage IV - $500,000 Settlement. | |
| Failure to Check Prescription for Morphine at Time of Admission - Woman Suffers Morphine Toxicity and Dies - Confidential Settlement With Nursing Home - $600,000 Verdict Against Hospital Where Order Originated. |

