Verdicts And Settlements

The Lawrence Firm, PSC handles complex medical legal matters for patients who have been seriously injured through the negligence of physicians, nurses or hospitals. We have had the privilege of representing hundreds of families whose lives have been altered through the careless acts of others. Although unintentional, medical negligence has drastic financial, emotional and familial consequences for its victims. We have been fortunate to advocate for families like yours. Our record is strong and includes $20 million dollar verdicts in both Ohio and Kentucky. These are some of the cases we have handled:

• Incorrect IV solution administered to infant resulting in brain injury and causing a lifetime (80 years) of special care needs for a female who is ambulatory, looks normal, but will never succeed in school, hold a job, live independently, get married, or raise a family.
• Inappropriate use of Pitocin resulting in permanent brain injury.
• Child negligently smothered to death by emergency room personnel while being sutured for a cut.
• Infant negligently given near lethal injection of Potassium Chloride resulting in permanent brain injury causing a lifetime of special care needs for a male who will never hold a job or function without assistance.
• Failure to properly secure facility.
• Failure to restrain patients that pose threat to themselves and others. Failure to do necessary Cesarean Section resulting in ruptured uterus and dead baby.
• Failure to recognize and act upon fetal distress resulting in brain injured child.
• Failure to use needed restraints in confused patient resulting in fatal fall.
• Negligent gallbladder surgery resulting in liver damage.
• Failure to diagnose and promptly treat bowel obstruction.
• Negligently performed gastric bypass.
• Negligently performed plastic surgery.
• Negligent failure to recognize signs of infection causing septic shock and death.
• Negligent failure to appreciate signs of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism resulting in death.
• Negligent failure to diagnose breast cancer resulting in death.
• Failure to properly test drug and warn of toxic properties resulting in loss of liver.
• Failure to appreciate signs of myocardial infarction resulting in death.
• Failure to respond in a timely manner to post surgical optical pain resulting in blindness.
• Negligent operation of semi tractor trailer in violation of drive time regulations causing driver to fall asleep at the wheel resulting in death to one motorist and loss of limb to another.
• Failure to give blood products resulting in hypovolemic shock and death.
• Medication errors resulting in death.
• Dump truck driver negligently exceeds speed limit and kills mother in front of her home while children look on.
• Negligent dump truck driver goes left of center causing oncoming motorist to run off roadway and have fatal collision.
• Negligent semi truck driver runs stop sign and broadsides motorist killing one and seriously injuring another.
• Negligent design/manufacture of surgical device resulting in death of patient.
• Failure to diagnose and treat CVA (stroke) which led to permanent disability.
• Failure to promptly and professionally resuscitate teenage patient from cardiac arrest resulting in hypoxic brain injury and death.
• Defective roast beef sandwich containing bone shard which punctured esophagus resulting in thoracotomy.
• Misdiagnosis of testicular cancer resulting in death.
• Failure to diagnose ectopic pregnancy resulting in death.
• Negligence in extubating postoperative patient resulting in death.
• Negligent failure to perform cesarean section on baby too large to pass through canal resulting in shoulder dystocia and permanent loss of use of arm.
• Failure to follow firearm safety procedure on movie set resulting in discharge of 12 gauge blank into actor's ear.
• Negligent design of mower resulting in loss of part of foot.
• Invasion of privacy by unauthorized publication of photo revealing confidential medical information.