Medical Malpractice
At Kolsby Gordon, we believe medical malpractice cases demonstrate why the rule of law is so important. These cases involve people who have been badly hurt or have died because of the negligence of the very people they have trusted—with their time, their money, and their bodies—to heal them.
Even in egregious cases that involve willful misconduct on the part of a doctor that leads to the direst consequences, very often the injured party’s only opportunity for redress comes from a competent medical malpractice attorney. We hold the trust that those clients place in us as sacred—and we are absolutely committed to doing everything possible to achieve the best possible results for every victim of medical malpractice who seeks our counsel.
Our commitment to medical malpractice runs deep. Two members of our team are fully qualified, board-certified medical doctors in addition to being lawyers. We also have strong relationships with the top medical experts nationwide.
Since we opened our doors fifty years ago, virtually every Kolsby Gordon attorney has successfully handled numerous medical malpractice cases. Many have set precedents. Recent legal malpractice cases we have handled at Kolsby Gordon include:
- Seven-Figure Verdict for Teenager Whose Doctor Failed to Diagnose an Impending Stroke A 16-year-old girl displayed signs that pointed to a likely stroke, yet her doctor failed, despite years of complaints and a medical history consistent with an extremely high stroke risk, to refer her to a neurologist. As a result, she suffered a stroke and resulting permanent mental deterioration and emotional problems.
- Seven-Figure Verdict for Patient Whose Arm was Permanently Disabled in Hospital While in the care of a rehabilitation hospital, a quadriplegic attorney was turned in a such way that the maneuver broke his right arm, causing irreparable disability to the arm he relied on to operate a keyboard, feed himself, and work.
- Negligently Performed Laser Vision Correction Lawyers across the country are representing those who have been injured by negligently performed laser vision correction surgeries. A Kolsby Gordon partner was the first in the region to win a jury verdict in such a case, and authored a key article on such cases.
- Seven-Figure Verdict for Family of Man Who Died of Undiagnosed Arrhythmia A man visited his doctor complaining of heart palpitations, chest pressure, and indigestion. The doctor told him he had drunk too much caffeine and investigated the man’s complaints no further. A few months later, the man died of undiagnosed arrhythmia, leaving behind his wife and children.
- Seven-Figure Settlement for Failure to Monitor Vital Signs During what is normally a straightforward operation—a cystoscopy—the medical team failed to properly monitor the patient’s vital signs. Convulsions, cardiac arrest, and death were the tragic result.
- Seven-Figure Settlement for Failure to Diagnose and Treat Cardiac Disease When health care professionals failed to react within the accepted standards of medical care to signs of a patient’s cardiac disease, the result was the patient’s needlessly premature death.
- Seven-Figure Settlement for Man who Suffered Brain Injury While undergoing an elective operation, an otherwise healthy man was lightly sedated. The pharmaceuticals used for sedation stopped his breathing, and the staff in charge of monitoring him did not notice this, during which time he suffered irreparable, devastating brain damage. He is now confined to an electric wheelchair and is dependent on around-the-clock caregivers to help him with even the simplest tasks.
- Seven-Figure Verdict for Failure to Diagnose a Congenitally Dislocated Hip For more than a year, a pediatrician failed to diagnose a young child’s dislocated hip. Had it been caught early, it almost certainly could have been treated simply with lasting results. Instead the toddler endured repeated surgeries, splints, and procedures, with no guarantee of long-term success.
- Seven-Figure Settlement for Improper Treatment of Fatal Cardiac Illness A 51-year-old man with known heart trouble—including occlusion of vital arteries—was under the care of several doctors when he complained repeatedly of chest pain including, at times, extreme chest pain. In such a patient, appropriate care would have included diagnostic studies to determine the function of his heart. Despite his recurring pain over an extended period, the appropriate tests were not done, and eventually the patient died of cardiac arrest. Kolsby Gordon attorneys achieved a seven-figure settlement for his family.
- Seven-Figure Settlement for Failure to Monitor and Respond Resulting in Premature Death A patient, who was a medical doctor by profession, was hospitalized and was being treated for a medical condition unrelated to the bowel when he developed a bowel complication that necessitated a code call. Neither the bowel complication nor the code call was managed in accordance with appropriate standards of care, and as a result the patient died. On behalf of his surviving relatives, Kolsby Gordon attorneys negotiated a seven-figure settlement.
