Archive for April, 2019
Family settles for $3.8 million in medical malpractice lawsuit
On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Tuesday, April 30, 2019. People requiring care in a hospital emergency room are entitled to receive necessary medical attention, testing and treatment, and no detail regarding socioeconomic status or ethnicity should influence the level of care they receive. Most Louisiana residents would likely agree with this statement. However, a family in another state claims the level of care given to one of their members at a hospital emergency room did not meet the same standard applied to higher-income patients . The family subsequently filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against the hospital, and the facility recently agreed to settle for $3.8 million. Early in 2015, the then 33-year-old woman…
Read MoreAttention to detail can prevent surgical errors
On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Surgical Errors on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. Bringing a child into the world is often referred to as one of the happiest moments in a woman’s life and after the birth the mother’s first concern is for the health of her child. Fingers and toes are frequently counted to make sure there are 10. When a child’s health is in jeopardy or an illness has been diagnosed, there is little a parent won’t do to help the child in Louisiana. Parents will look to the best physicians available to care for their child. If surgery is required, the possibility of surgical errors will probably be far from a parent’s mind. A…
Read MoreCouple awarded $12.25 million in medical malpractice lawsuit
On behalf of David Bowling of The Bowling Christiansen Law Firm, A Professional Law Corporation posted in Medical Malpractice on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Many Louisiana residents can understand the feelings of fear and anxiety that arise when they are handed a cancer diagnosis. Most people in this position likely worry about how the illness will affect their lifestyle in the future and even whether they will have much longer to live. A man in another state not only had to endure such thoughts but also underwent surgery to treat the problem, only to discover he was a victim of misdiagnosis. He and his wife were recently awarded $12.25 million in a medical malpractice suit. The incident happened at a medical clinic where a pathologist mixed up…
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