A Jury Verdict Research study found that the median jury ward in ear injury cases is$50,000. I would suspect the average is a great deal higher.
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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.
The lead paint verdicts continue to come in Baltimore City in a case almost 20 years old. A Baltimore jury awarded $2 million to a lead-poisoning victim and her mother after finding their former landlord negligently failed to remover remove flaking and peeling lead based paint from the home. The $1.5 million award will be reduced to $350,000 under the Maryland law capping non-economic damages in personal-injury cases. After the cap, the total award will be $850,000, according to the plaintiffs' injury attorneys.
Plaintiff was first tested for lead poisoning when she was 19 months old in September 1992. Her lead level was found to be 28 micrograms per deciliter, nearly three times the 10mcg/dl that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deems to be a level of concern for lead poisoning, according to the plaintiffs' injury lawyers.
Still, the verdict is impressive because even Plaintiff's experts will say you can get a lead level of 15 just by living in Baltimore City. Of course, the Plaintiff will only get one-third of what the what the jury wanted her to get.
