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Current__________________________________Representative Cases:- A $5.3 million settlement for a 3 year old boy who became brain damaged during a medical procedure to repair a bleeding blood vessel in his throat following a simple tonsillectomy. The defendants were 3 ENT surgeons who failed to repair the vessel despite three visits to an emergency room with complaints of coughing up blood and an anesthesiologist who failed to timely intubate the boy during the final attempt to repair the vessel and the hospital where all the doctor defendants were on staff. - A 1.9 million dollar settlement for a man who became paralyzed from the waist down when a resident at a hospital attempted to fix a broken neck with a Halo device and traction. During the procedure, the resident applied more and more traction until the Halo device ripped off the man's head, causing a whiplash type injury to his spinal cord. The case was settled pre-suit. - A $1.1 million jury verdict in a Northern Michigan county that had not had a medical malpractice verdict in favor of the plaintiff in recent memory (at least 12 years). The case was for wrongful death of an obese man who had undergone a second weight loss surgery. After the surgery, a leak developed in a portion of the esophagus that the surgeon had sewn to the newly down-sized stomach. The leak had caused wide-spread infection. The defendants were the surgeon and an emergency department physician who failed to recognize and promptly treat the infection. - A $2.9 million settlement for the family of a young woman who died due to the failure of a hospital's nursing staff and a staff neurologist to timely detect and treat an evolving stroke that caused fatal brain damage.