NEW YORK MEDICAL MALPRACTICE LAWYERS74 year old dies from post-surgical complications - $450,000 Recovery This past April, just prior to jury selection, WRS Associate Thomas M. Oliva settled for $450,000 the case of a 74 year old man who died from severe post-surgical complications from what was to be routine hernia surgery. Our client went in to the hospital for a laparoscopic ventral hernia repair. This "routine" surgery took over six hours to perform. He immediately had complications post operatively with confusion and a distended abdomen. An abdominal x-ray was done which showed problems with the small bowel. It wasn’t until a week after the initial surgery that the surgeons perform a laparotomy only to find a perforated bowel. Unfortunately our client never recovered, and three months later, suffered a cardiac arrest and death. It was our position that the surgeons damaged the bowel during the initial surgery and failed to go back in when there were clear signs that our client had a perorated bowel. Unfortunately when they finally decided to go back and do further surgery our client lost any chance to survive the surgeon’s malpractice. He was survived by his wife of fifty years. Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. For more information, click here. |
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