Medical Negligence

CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT

(Parties cannont be revealed)

Medical Negligence – 2006

Clients (three adult children of deceased mother) v. St. Louis Metropolitan hospital

Type of Claim: Suit for medical negligence versus hospital, emergency room physician and patients physician, relating to drug interaction, adverse reaction, drug allergy use of antibiotics.

Damages: Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, wrongful death of eighty five year old mother.

Medical Bills: about $60,000.00 and funeral expenses.

Settlement: $230,000.00 at mediation, when the case was set for impending trial.