High six-figure recovery for failure to detect excess brain fluid in young boy

A severely mentally disabled boy from Washington, PA, went into the Emergency Room at Washington Hospital with signs and symptoms suggesting that he had an abnormal build up of fluid on his brain. Unfortunately, the Emergency Room physician and the radiologist who read a CT scan of the child’s brain failed to detect the excess fluid. If the fluid had been seen, it could have been safely drained. Unfortunately, that did not happen and the child died a few days later. Even though the child was already severely disable before this incident, we obtained a significant six-figure recovery on behalf of the parents in a medical malpractice claim filed against the hospital.