The Record
Representative results obtained by William M. Powell in medical malpractice, civil rights, product liability, wrongful death, and serious injury matters.
Reported Amounts
A nine-year-old girl’s heart stopped during an endoscopic procedure when the nurse anesthetist failed to monitor her declining heart rate and oxygen. She suffered permanent paralysis and catastrophic brain damage.
Recovered for the family of a young girl who drowned in Northwest Florida—a loss no family should endure, and a result reflecting accountability from those responsible.
A home-care nurse failed to monitor a medically fragile child and improperly performed CPR when his breathing stopped, causing additional brain injury. The insurer paid its policy limits.
A radiation oncologist and physicist failed to evaluate the dose and its distribution, and massive over-radiation destroyed the patient’s leg through radiation necrosis.
A young woman was told she had bladder cancer and endured repeated bacterial infusions into her bladder before a new doctor confirmed she never had cancer.
During a procedure to break up bladder stones, the urologist cut through the bladder wall and failed to diagnose his own mistake, leading to massive infection and six months in the hospital.
An elderly dialysis patient was neglected by hospital nursing staff, developed infected pressure ulcers, and died of sepsis five weeks later.
Physicians failed to relieve pressure from a known hematoma after hip surgery, resulting in permanent nerve damage and a dropped foot.
A neurologist prescribed extensive pain medication to a young adult without ordering prior medical records; the patient died of an overdose shortly afterward.
A screening mammogram showed probable cancer in both breasts, but the treating physician did not tell the patient she needed biopsies for nine months.
Staff refused to call 911 for a resident reporting chest pain; she twice went to a neighboring room to call herself, suffered a heart attack, and died months later.
An inexperienced nurse anesthetist incorrectly brought an elderly patient out of anesthesia, causing fatal negative pressure pulmonary edema.
A surgeon removing a swollen gland cut the accessory nerve, permanently paralyzing the trapezius muscle and causing atrophy, weakness, and disfigurement.
Improperly injected silicone-based lip filler caused permanent beading and disfigurement, made worse by repeated attempts to correct it.
A podiatrist failed to culture a post-surgical infection in a teenage patient; it seeded in the bone and caused partial paralysis of her foot.
A young woman’s breast lump was dismissed as a cyst for months until an internist ordered the biopsy that confirmed cancer, requiring mastectomy.
Additional Matters
Some settlements cannot be reported by amount because the parties agreed to confidentiality.
A teenager driving his siblings home was struck in the head with a police baton after handing over his license, requiring multiple staples—a civil rights recovery against law enforcement.
A woman with no cardiac history suffered a heart attack caused by an over-the-counter weight-loss product; the claim was brought against the pharmaceutical company.
Mesh implanted too tightly over the urethra left a young mother unable to urinate without a catheter, requiring an implanted electrical device.
A surgeon cut the common bile duct during gallbladder removal and missed the mistake; emergency reconstructive surgery followed two days later.
A hospitalized diabetic patient’s monitor showed a heart attack in progress; the nursing station did not respond, and he died of multi-organ failure.
A young man with severe spinal pain was sent home without an MRI; he returned two days later and died within hours of an epidural abscess and massive infection.
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