Torts

Medical Negligence - Failure to Diagnose Breast Cancer: Benson v. Doctor.

Donna Benson's doctor failed to do anything about a lump in her breast and when she was finally diagnosed with cancer eight months later, it was too late to save her life. Case settled for a confidential amount.

Medical Negligence Death of an Infant: Oshbahr v. Eaves.

Connie was delighted to be pregnant, but concerned because she was much larger then she had been with her first child. She told her doctor she had felt three feet, but he ignored her and he also ignored the nurse who called him when she arrived at the hospital in labor at 7 months gestation and she heard two heartbeats. No arrangements were made for more than one baby. There were only two people in the delivery room, the doctor and the nurse, but there were three babies. The third born, Cindy, died in less then 24 hours. The case was tried to a jury verdict of $150,000.

Medical negligence - Group B-Streptococcus Death of an Infant: VanderVelde v. Doctor.

Lea VanderVelde was a law professor, pregnant with her second child. Everything seemed perfectly normal with her pregnancy and with the birth of her daughter. Less then 24 hours later, Sherry was dead of a virulent bacterial infection delivered to her through her mother's birth canal. Case settled against the doctor for confidential amount.