What's Happening at Hart Wagner

After a seven-day trial, Karen O’Kasey has won a medical negligence case in Multnomah County!  Plaintiff was referred by her care provider for an ultrasound due to a breast lump.  Our client, her radiologist, then interpreted the ultrasound and continued to do a mammogram based on his findings.  He spoke to her about his findings then sent his report to the referring provider for follow-up.  Plaintiff claimed that her radiologist was negligent in evaluating her breast lump.  Plaintiff was seeking over $5,000,000 in non-economic and economic damages.  Jury deliberated less than 3 hours before coming back with a defense verdict.

Plaintiffs (an individual and his company) sued a logging company, our client, for a total of $5,130,123 in economic and non-economic damages for an accident in August 2008 in which plaintiff alleges that while driving a feller buncher over a bridge on the property being logged, the bridge failed causing the feller buncher to fall off the bridge.  He alleged brain injuries as a result.  The case went to the jury on Sept 25 and after a one-hour deliberation, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the defendants.

Plaintiff was diagnosed 15 days post-operatively with an extremely rare blood clotting process in the veins of small intestines which affects 1 in 7.5 million laparoscopic surgery patients.  Plaintiff alleged negligence and wrongful death against our client, his physician.  After a 9-day trial in Multnomah County, Karen O’Kasey received a defense verdict.  Plaintiff was seeking $3,000,000 in non-economic and economic damages.

Plaintiff, widow of the patient, sued our client for $582,140 for negligence relating to a staph infection from a PICC line placed during the patient’s treatment for aplastic anemia, alleging that it had progressed to the extent it was no longer effectively treatable, causing the patient to die.

Co-defendant was dismissed from the case on Sept 4 (trial day 4).  The case against our client went to the jury on Sept 9 and after a one-hour deliberation, the jury returned an 11-1 verdict in favor of our client.

Congratulations to Rod Norton and Dawn Garrison! After 9 days of trial in a $3.8 million medical malpractice case, the jury came back with a unanimous defense verdict for our clients.

Joe Traylor received a quick delivered defense verdict today in Clark County, WA after 20 minutes of jury deliberations. Plaintiff was claiming $8400 of chiropractic care and $35,000 in non-economic damages. The jury found the 8-10 mph automobile accident was incapable of causing injury.