Million-dollar settlement

A middle-aged housewife from Beaver County died as a result of a severe blood infection (sepsis), which developed after she underwent surgery to remove a kidney stone. We filed a medical malpractice claim against the surgeon on the ground that he failed to check the patient’s urine before doing the kidney stone removal, and had he checked the urine, he would have discovered that the patient already had a urinary tract infection when she entered the hospital. Therefore, the surgery should have either been canceled or she should have been put on antibiotics before going to the operating room. We obtained a million-dollar settlement on behalf of her widowed husband.