Largest Settlements of 2012

As seen in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, January 28, 2013

Top Verdicts and Settlements

Lubin & Meyer PC achieves 24 of 55 medical malpractice settlements of $1 million or more

$4.65 million settlement
Newborn suffers brain damage in extended delivery
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Krysia J. Syska, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$3.9 million settlement
Cancer, now terminal, spread unchecked for two years
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Krysia J. Syska, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$3.8 million settlement
Doctors fail to act on fetal distress; brain damage results
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Krysia J. Syska, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$3.5 million settlement
Patient’s cancer diagnosis detrimentally delayed
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Krysia J. Syska, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$3.5 million settlement
Man with chronic Hepatitis B develops fatal liver cancer
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Krysia J. Syska, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$3.2 million settlement
Nurses fail to act on worrisome fetal readings; brain damage results
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Krysia J. Syska, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$3 million settlement
Delayed surgery reveals crash victim’s organ damage
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Adam R. Satin, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$3 million settlement
Physician mistakes aneurism for kidney stone
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorney: Adam R. Satin, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$3 million settlement
Newborn incurs brain injury during labor
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$3 million settlement
Sepsis in woman’s arm infection leads to brain damage
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$2.5 million settlement
Teen dies after brain swelling goes undectected
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$2 million settlement
Study leader doubles subject’s meds without PCP’s OK
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr., Benjamin R. Novotny, and Nicholas Cappiello, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1.85 million settlement
Patient, at risk for bleeding, suffers fatal hemorrhage
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Benjamin R. Novotny, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1.75 million settlement
Man dies following elective heart valve replacement
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1.75 million settlement
Enlarged thyroid goes untested for two years; cancer develops
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Adam R. Satin, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1.5 million settlement
Man dies after delayed diagnosis of kidney cancer
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1.5 million settlement
Surgical patient suffers facial droop after nerve is severed
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1.4 million settlement
Girl, 11, suffers foot droop after experimental procedure
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Benjamin R. Novotny, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1.25 million settlement
Man diagnosed with GERD dies next day of arrhythmia
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Krysia J. Syska, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1 million settlement
Misread pathology leads to unnecessary prostate removal
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1 million settlement
Plaintiff: X-ray revealed cancer a year before diagnosis
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1 million settlement
Woman dies after CT scan was allegedly misread
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Adam R. Satin, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1 million settlement
Thyroid cancer advances untreated to Stage IV
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Nicholas Cappiello, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

$1 million settlement
Man suffers fatal heart attack after walk down stairs with EMTs
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Nicholas Cappiello, Lubin & Meyer, Boston

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