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DISCLAIMER: The above results are specific to the facts and legal circumstances of each of the above clients' cases and should not be used to form an expectation that the same results could be obtained for other clients in similar matters without reference to the specific factual and legal circumstances of each client’s case.

$1.05 Million Settlement In Bacterial Endocarditis Case

We represented a 39-year old gentleman who presented to his primary care physician with signs and symptoms of an infection. A blood culture was necessary to diagnose and treat his infection, but it was not done. Instead, the doctor diagnosed our client with pneumonia instead of the blood-borne bacterial infection that he had. When the patient reported to the emergency department weeks later in significant distress, testing revealed that our client had bacterial endocarditis, an infection involving the heart. The failure to make the diagnosis earlier and to give antibiotics earlier allowed the infection to progress to the point that our client suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest, and required open heart surgery to implant an artifical heart valve and a pacemaker. He will need lifetime treatment with blood thinners, and cardiac monitoring.

Awarded: $1,050,000.00

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