Kline & Specter - Major Victories

Settlement: Woman paralyzed due to medical errors in treatment following car accident.

Settlement: Baby suffers brain damage when skull is crushed in forceps/vacuum delivery.

Settlement: Paraplegic injuries to 11-year old girl following spinal surgery.

Jury verdict against a doctor on behalf of a woman who died after a cancer procedure was performed incorrectly. (Stanton).

Settlement: Misplaced tube causes child's intra-operative cardiac arrest, severe injuries.

Philadelphia jury verdict in boy’s drowning death at camp. (Slaughter)

Settlement with doctor, hospital in death of 16-month-old. (Donnelly)

Settlement: Delay in delivery results in severe brain damage, cerebral palsy and epilepsy.

Settlement for woman brain damaged by hospital error. (McDowell)

Philadelphia jury verdict for injured worker. (Vassallo)

Settlement with auto dealership where an employee drove into an elderly woman on the sidewalk, killing her.

Settlement: Injuries to infant due to inadequate monitoring of mother after car accident.

Settlement: Patient not advised of test result showing heart defect dies of heart attack.

Settlement: Brain injury in failure to properly monitor and treat Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

Settlement with Piazza Nissan of Ardmore, Pa., for the family of an 89-year-old woman who was struck and killed while on sidewalk by a company driver as his vehicle exited the dealership.

Settlement: Delay in birth delivery results in ischemic encephalopathy.

Settlement: Misplaced IV moves air embolus into child’s lungs, causing cardiac arrest

Settlement: Brain damage suffered as a result of poor care during labor and delivery.

Settlement: Woman develops pneumonia after surgery, suffers quadriplegic injuries.

Settlement: Negligence leads to catastrophic and permanent birth injuries to twins.

Settlement: Patient’s heart punctured during placement of port, results in heart attack.

Settlement: Patient’s heart punctured during placement of port, results in heart attack.

Settlement for boy who suffered brain damage after tonsil surgery. Hospital also pledged to make safety changes. (Bates)

Settlement of a case against a medical imaging company that evaded New York state and city taxes.

Settlement: Misdiagnosis leads to prolonged hypoglycemia, woman’s death.

Settlement: Delay in treating thoracic aortic dissection brings cardiac arrest, brain injury.

Settlement with the owner and operator of a Philadelphia office building on behalf of a paralegal who was attacked by an intruder.

Settlement: Child with history of leukemia dies of acute bleeding due to over-transfusion.

Settlement: Failure to relieve a spinal abscess causing permanent paraplegia.

Settlement: Indiana County verdict for baby injured during delivery (Chichy)

Settlement: Mismanagement of blood pressure during anesthesia causes stroke.

Settlement: Premature baby in hospital three weeks contracts bacterial meningitis.

Settlement: Botched CV line placement, delayed diagnosis leads to leg amputations.

Settlement: Delay in treating thoracic aortic dissection brings cardiac arrest, brain injury.

Settlement: Botched delivery by midwife results in baby’s severe brain injury.

Settlement: Patient suffers respiratory distress after hip replacement, suffers brain injury.

Settlement for a woman who suffered respiratory failure and septic shock after hospital staff failed to recognize an infection after a Caesarean delivery.

Settlement: Woman suffers stroke following a transcatheter closure procedure.

NJ verdict for woman given wrong anti-malaria drug for trip.

Settlement: Medical malpractice leading to cardiac arrest following car accident.