Medical Malpractice

$836,000 (LIMIT OF ERODING POLICY) RECOVERY – Failure to perform surgery between post-hysterectomy differential diagnosis of bowel obstruction and transfer to subsequent nonparty hospital 19 days later – Wrongful death.

Monmouth County

This was a medical malpractice case in which the plaintiff contended that the defendant general surgeon negligently failed to perform surgery between the time of a differential diagnosis of a bowel obstruction that was made upon the patient’s readmission several days after a hysterectomy and 19 days later when the finding of sepsis and a significant amount of necrotic intestinal tissue prompted the transfer to the subsequent nonparty hospital. The plaintiff maintained that by this time, it was too late to save the 50-year-old decedent, who died approximately two months after she was transferred to the subsequent hospital.

The case settled prior to trial for the $836,000 that remained on the $1,000,000 eroding policy.

Reference

Case info omitted upon request. Attorney for Plaintiff, Frank S. Gaudio, The Law Office of Miller & Gaudio PC in Red Bank.