Multimillion-dollar recovery

A husband and father from western Pennsylvania was undergoing a kidney transplant at a Pittsburgh hospital with an organ donated by his wife. During his surgery, the anesthesia team provided the patient with far too much fluid and slowly, over time this “fluid overload” caused the patient’s lungs to stop working. As a result, he died in the operating room from pulmonary edema and excessive fluid in the lungs. We filed a medical malpractice claim and wrongful death claim against the anesthesia team at the hospital and obtained a multimillion-dollar recovery on behalf of this man’s widow and children.