Medical Malpractice Team Obtains Jury Verdict

On April 10, 2012, Thomas V. Monahan, Jr. and Elizabeth A. Hafey obtained a defense verdict in favor of Manor Care Largo MD, LLC, a nursing home in Prince George’s County after a six-day trial.  In Lissa Ross v. Manor Care Largo, the ten children of James Johnson alleged that their father fell from a wheelchair at Manor Care Largo, sustained an injury to his brain which resulted in surgery six days later and, ultimately, died less than 24 hours after the brain surgery.  After hearing defense experts in geriatrics, neurosurgery and neuroradiology, the jury concluded that there was no breach in the standard of care by any nurses or staff at Manor Care Largo.

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Medical Malpractice Team Obtains Verdict for Surgeon

Craig B. Merkle and Adam Kelley recently obtained a defense verdict in a wrongful death suit on behalf of a general surgeon in the Circuit Court of Wicomico County, Maryland. In the case of Paluba v. MASG, the plaintiffs alleged that the defendant surgeon failed to properly repair and treat an anastamotic leak discovered during a low anterior resection for rectal cancer.  The patient's subsequent course was complicated by a persistent high ileostomy output, Klebsiella pneumonia, an inflamed abdominal aortic aneurysm, an infected endograft and an aortoenteric fistula.  After 8 days of trial, the jury determined that the defendant had not breached the standard of care in the decisions made at the time of surgery or in the patient's postoperative management. Nine physicians testified during the trial on a wide range of issues, including, surgical oncology, infectious disease, vascular surgery, and gastroenterology.