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VERDICT UPDATE: $1.2M Award Hits Hospital, ER Doc Cleared of Fault in Georgia Med Mal Stroke Case

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Feb 26, 2016 10:46:00 AM

 

Lloyd Bell delivers closing arguments in trial of Shawn Evans' claim that ER staff failed to appropriately care for his wife Janice Evans, leading to strokes that left her permanently disabled. 


Update: 3/1/16 

Decatur, Ga—Jurors Monday awarded $1.2 million to a Georgia couple for the strokes that left a woman permanently disabled, but found the woman 49% responsible and cleared the doctor who treated her of liability. Evans v. Sutton, et al, 13A48465-4.

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Topics: Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Georgia, Evans v. Sutton

ER Staff's Treatment Questioned as Med Mal Trial over Patient's Brain Injury Opens

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Feb 19, 2016 12:43:00 PM

Decatur, GA—Attorneys Wednesday sparred over responsibility for the strokes that caused lifelong brain damage to a Georgia woman, as trial opened in her husband’s suit against the emergency room staff that treated her. Evans v. Sutton, et al, 13A48465-4.

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Topics: Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Georgia, Evans v. Sutton

GA Med Mal Trial over ER Patient's Strokes, Brain Injury Opens Next Week

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Feb 10, 2016 10:57:24 PM

Decatur, GA—Trial is scheduled to begin next week in a suit by a man who claims a Conyers hospital’s medical staff failed to properly treat his wife’s aneurysm in time to prevent a series of strokes that caused her life-long brain damage. Evans v. Sutton, et al, 13A48465-4.

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Topics: Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Georgia, Evans v. Sutton

CVN Georgia's 2015 Defense Attorney of the Year Is...

Posted by Courtroom View Network on Jan 14, 2016 9:28:38 AM

Top defense attorneys won key CVN-covered trials throughout Georgia in 2015. CVN Georgia's 2015 Defense Attorney of the Year earned the honor going undefeated in two major medical malpractice trials in front of CVN cameras. 

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Topics: Medical Malpractice, Georgia, Bailey v. Corso, Aiken v. Newton Health System, Georgia Attorney of the Year

As Atlanta Brain Injury Med Mal Trial Opens, Doctors' Response to Patient's Oxygen Loss Questioned

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Jan 13, 2016 10:35:27 PM

Jonathan Marigliano tells jurors medical negligence led to the life-long brain damage Esmeralda Palacios suffered during a 2012 lung biopsy procedure. Palacios' husband, Raul, represented by Marigliano, claims Drs. Laura Kaufman and Donald Silverman were negligent in their treatment of his wife during the procedure. 


Atlanta—Whether the catastrophic brain damage an Alpharetta woman suffered during a lung procedure was reasonably preventable became the key question presented to jurors as trial began against the anesthesiologists involved in the surgery. Palacios v. Kaufman, 13EVO17275.

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Topics: Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Georgia