Medical Malpractice Trial ResultsMichigan Medical Malpractice Defense AttorneysAt the Grand Rapids law firm of Aardema, Whitelaw & Sears-Ewald, our attorneys have taken numerous medical malpractice cases to trial, and our record in the courtroom is impeccable. Here are some of our more recent medical malpractice trial results. McDonald v. Reed City Hospital, et al. Coron v. Sandin Buie v. Fabi, M.D., et al. In 2005, Brian Whitelaw won a judgment of "no cause" in a lawsuit filed by a 56-year-old woman who alleged that a neurosurgeon was liable for her stiff neck following surgery to fix a "hangman's fracture" at the C2 and C3 vertebrae in the neck. Read more details here. Shepperd v. Fabi, M.D., et al. The jury agreed with Brian Whitelaw and found no negligence by defendant on the first vote, resulting in a "no cause" verdict in several minutes. Read more details here. Keck v. Neurosurgery of Kalamazoo, P.C. Brian Whitelaw succeeded in getting a "no cause" verdict in a case involving allegations that a 77-year-old woman who was left with chronic pain and disability in her right leg after total occlusion of the right common iliac artery for three days. Read more about the case here. Schippers v. Simoni, et al. Our attorneys successfully disproved the plaintiff's theory that a vascular surgeon did not properly treat a 39-year-old woman whose blood clots in her left arm led to its amputation and blindness. Read more here. Stevens v. Reed City Hospital A jury agreed with our attorneys that the hospital and an internal medicine physician were not at fault in the death of a 58-year-old woman with asthma, COPD and kyphoscoliosis who died of respiratory failure. Read more about the case here. Thorn v. Lakeview Community Hospital, et al. Brian Whitelaw persuaded the jury that an emergency room physician was not at fault for failing to diagnose meningococcemia in a 7-month-old who later underwent multiple amputations. Read more details here. Salee v. Messamore The defense attorneys won the case after successfully arguing that a chiropractor was not liable for a 41-year-old patient’s possible reflex sympathetic dystrophy in her wrists after they were pinched in a Zenith Hi-Lo table during an adjustment. Read more details here. Dellabaugh v. Nandihalli, M.D. Our attorneys won on a directed verdict a case in which the plaintiffs alleged that our physician client failed to diagnose mesenteric arterial occlusion, which resulted in a 43-year-old woman’s bowel perforation, sepsis, several months in the hospital and ultimate death. Read more details here. Prys v. Libra, et al. Robert Aardema successfully argued that his client did not violate the standard of care by failing to require additional tests of a "cyst" on a 59-year-old male patient’s foot that was in fact a tumor which would ultimately lead to his death. Read more details here. Beck v. McLaren, et al. The jury ruled that there was no medical malpractice in a case in which a patient suffered a bladder injury from mesh material that was sutured into the abdominal wall during a previous hernia surgery. Read more details here. Dillion v. Rosenberg Dolores Sears-Ewald successfully argued at trial that the plaintiff was not insane when robbing a bank at gunpoint. The plaintiff claimed that she robbed a bank as a result of the defendant's failure to treat her bipolar disorder. The plaintiff did not timely file her complaint and thus argued that she was insane tolling the statute of limitations. A trial to determine the insanity issues resulted in a defense verdict and the case was dismissed. Dunn v. Libra Dolores Sears-Ewald won a directed verdict in a case where plaintiff alleged that he had a stoke as a result of negligently stopping his Coumadin prior to an oral surgery. Contact our law firm today. We can work with any medical malpractice insurance company in Michigan. From our office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we provide high quality legal counsel to people throughout the Lower Peninsula, Upper Peninsula and Western Michigan, including the cities of Grand Rapids, Lansing, Kalamazoo, Cheboygan, St. Joseph, Detroit, Battle Creek, Flint, Manistee, Jackson, Muskegon, Allegan, Petoskey, Ludington, Mt. Pleasant, Big Rapids, Traverse City, Gladwin, Midland, Alma, Alpena, and Bay City. |
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