Significant six-figure award

An elderly woman from Pittsburgh’s North Hills suffered an injury to her ureter while undergoing a cystoscopy for treatment of a kidney stone. The injury to the ureter led to a very prolonged hospitalization and three additional surgeries. With the help of an independent urology expert, we filed a medical malpractice claim and were able to establish that the additional surgeries and the lengthy hospital stay could have been avoided if the surgeon had discovered and treated the original injury to the ureter much earlier on. We obtained a significant six-figure award on her behalf.