Coma victim and her lawyers beat the odds in $22M verdict 
By:
Sylvia Hsieh
Published: April 2, 2012
Tags: California, comatose, medical malpractice, stroke
Five years ago, Robyn Frankel’s family debated whether to take her off life support. Doctors advised that she had only a three percent chance of coming out of a coma, and that even if she did she would be a vegetable. But her family remembered her last words – “I don’t want to die” – and could not bring themselves to pull the plug.
Jury returns $4.2 million verdict against doctor
Published: March 30, 2012
Tags: blindness, failure to diagnose, medical malpractice, memory loss, Pennsylvania, stroke
A Lackawanna County, Penn. jury has returned a $4.2 million verdict against a physician whose patient suffered a series of strokes that left her with severe memory loss and partial blindness.
Stroke victim misdiagnosed with carpal tunnel wins $1.1M
By:
Danny Jacobs
Published: April 19, 2011
Tags: carpal tunnel syndrome, medical malpractice, stroke
A Maryland man and his wife have been awarded more than $1.1 million because his stroke symptoms were misdiagnosed as carpal tunnel syndrome.
$5.3 million settlement in woman’s death
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: August 30, 2010
Tags: hospital, Illinois, medical malpractice, stroke, wrongful death
The family of a woman who died after being admitted to Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Ill. with strokelike symptoms has agreed to a record $5.3 million medical malpractice settlement.
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