Settlement
Surgical Injury
A $3.5 million settlement in a surgical injury case.
A serious injury caused in the course of surgery. Medical cases like this turn on the records and the experts. We built it carefully and recovered $3.5 million.
Recovery
$3.5 million
Case type
Surgical injury
Practice area
Medical injury
Result
Settlement
Why surgical-injury cases are hard.
When a patient is harmed during surgery, the question is rarely whether something went wrong. It is whether what went wrong fell below the accepted standard of care, and proving that takes independent medical experts willing to review the records and put their name behind an opinion.
Hospitals and their insurers are well resourced and rarely concede these cases early. The process is built to outlast families who cannot carry the cost and the time a serious medical case demands.
How we built it.
We gathered the complete medical record, retained independent specialists to evaluate the standard of care, and documented the full cost of the injury, including the care our client would need going forward.
Preparation is leverage. A case that is genuinely ready for trial settles differently than one that is not.
The result.
The case resolved for $3.5 million.
Oregon law that applied
- ORS 12.110Oregon's two-year statute of limitations for personal injury, which governs most medical injury claims, subject to a discovery rule in some circumstances.
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Every case is different, and the value of any claim depends on its specific facts. This summary is provided for general information and is not legal advice.
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