Failure and Delay in Diagnosis

Many medical conditions are treatable when diagnosed in a timely manner. When properly treated, many illnesses are manageable. When mistakes are made in the diagnosing of a patient’s condition and/or a failure to properly treat an illness, the result can be life changing. Failure to diagnose and medical misdiagnosis can be seen in cardiac/heart cases, cancer cases and in all other specialties across the board. Below are examples of successes obtained by Attorneys Kampinski and Schneider in the realm of Failure and Delay in Diagnosis/Failure to Properly Treat...

$ 10 million settlement: a 46 year old executive died of a heart complication while receiving chemotherapy.

$ 8 million settlement: A patient and her unborn child died when the doctor failed to diagnose the patient’s symptoms of pre-eclampsia.

$ 6.25 million verdict: A doctor failed to diagnose a sarcoma on the back of a patient’s ankle leading to an amputation and death. The verdict included $3 million in punitive damages due to the defendant doctor’s alteration of medical records. The Ohio Supreme Court later reduced the punitive damages to $1 million, but added $2 million in pre-judgment interest. Moskovitz v Mt. Sinai , 69 Ohio St. 3d 638 (1994)

$ 6 million settlement: The patient died after a radiologist failed to detect and report findings suggestive of an aortic dissection.

$ 5.85 million settlement: A doctor failed to diagnose and treat a 38 year old woman's fatal pulmonary embolism. The plaintiff was single with no children. Attorneys Kampinski and Schneider were able to prove alterations in the medical chart by the defendant doctor.

$ 5 million settlement: A spinal cord compression syndrome was not diagnosed in a timely fashion and once diagnosed, the compression surgery was delayed. Her condition worsened to the point where she was unable to walk without assistance and suffered from incontinence. She made minimal improvement following surgery.

$ 4.1 million verdict: A physician’s group failed to diagnose a patient’s uterine cancer

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Ohio Failure to Diagnose Attorneys