William Powell | Cape Coral Accident & Injury Lawyer

Child Brain Damage Practice Area: Medical Malpractice Date: Jan 01, 2005 Outcome: $53,000,000 Structured settlement. Description: $53,000,000 Structured settlement, anesthesiology and pediatric gastroenterology, brain damage. A very concerned mother scheduled her 9 year old daughter for a gastroenterology endoscopic exam. This is where the child is placed under anesthesia and the pediatric gastroenterologist slides a tube down into the stomach with a camera to explore the area. During this procedure, the nurse anesthetist failed to properly monitor the child’s decline in heart rate and oxygen and the child’s heart stopped. After being revived by an emergency room physician the child suffered permanent paralysis and extensive brain damage resulting in a quadriplegic condition with no recognizable mental activity. Overradiation and loss of leg Practice Area: Medical Malpractice Date: Jan 01, 2007 Outcome: $1,900,000 Jury verdict. Description: $1,900,000 Jury verdict, radiation oncology, radiation induced loss of leg, radiation injury. An active gentleman in his late 40's was discovered to have a cancerous tumor in his thigh. The tumor was removed successfully and he started radiation therapy to bombard the area where the tumor was located to ensure no cancer cells were left behind. The radiation oncologist and physicist did not adequately evaluate the dose and its distribution which resulted in massive over radiation and the death of his entire leg from radiation necrosis. Urology Negligence Practice Area: Medical Malpractice Date: Jan 01, 2008 Outcome: $750000 Description: $750,000 Default & Summary Judgment Urology Negligence. A young woman whose urologist advised her that she had bladder cancer after removing a small tissue sample from her bladder. He then treated her with multiple infusions of modified tuberculosis bacteria that had been modified and injected into her bladder. After receiving all of the treatment a new doctor advised her that she never had cancer and that the treatment could have given her TB. She suffered from severe emotional distress.