A Florida woman who contracted flesh-eating bacteria after giving birth in an Orlando maternity ward has settled her lawsuit against the hospital. According to the medical malpractice lawsuit, doctors tried to discharge Plaintiff despite evidence of a rash, fever, chills and other symptoms. Doctors later determined that Plaintiff had a Group A Streptococcal infection. Both of Plaintiff's arms and legs were amputated in order to control the infection. Just an awful case.
Interesting fact in this case that had to help drive settlement: the nurse caring for Plaintiff refused to answer questions in deposition as to whether she know Plaintiff had an infection and if she knew how to recognize symptoms of flesh-eating bacterial infection. How do you refuse to answer that question in a case like this?
Medical malpractice lawyers are beginning to pay more attention to staph infection cases. A jury in Dallas awarded $17 million last month in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) case. MRSA is a strain of staph that is resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics that are used to treat infections.
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