Results

Nursing Home Neglect

Confidential Settlement for the family of an elderly man who wandered out of a nursing home and was found dead three weeks later. The nursing home employees testified that the Wanderguard alarm sounded so frequently that they became desensitized to the alarm and did not notice when the man left the facility.

$345,000 for a woman who fell and fractured her hip within the first twenty-fours of her admission to the nursing home.

Medical Negligence

$2.5 million result for a young boy who suffered disabling injuries due to spinal menningitis.  The child's physician failed to order appropriate testing to confirm the diagnosis of bacterial menningitis and order proper antibiotic therapy in a timely fashion to treat this potentially devastating disease.
 
 $1.75 million award for a girl whose neonatal hypoglycemia went undiagnosed and untreated during the first 24 hours after birth.  As a result, the girl suffers from cerebral palsy, including cognitive and motor developmental delays.
 
Confidential settlement for the family of a woman whose primary care physician failed to diagnose colon cancer in a timely manner.  Despite several visits to her doctor in which she complained of rectal bleeding – a key symptom of colon cancer – the doctor did not prescribe the appropriate diagnostic tests to catch the disease when it was treatable.

Transportation Negligence

 $2.4 million settlement during trial for a group of plaintiffs injured when the pilot of a small aircraft crashed his plane in dense fog.  Mr. Rooth and his co-counsel were able to demonstrate that the pilot was negligent in operating his plane in conditions which exceed the limits of his pilot certification.

$1.7 million mediation award for a woman who sustained Complex Regional Pain Syndrome due to a minor rear-end motor vehicle collision.   

Product Liability