The Largest Settlements of 2017

As seen in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, January 29, 2018

Lubin & Meyer secures 38 million-plus settlements in 2017 — more than 7 times as many as any other medical malpractice firm

(See most recent report: Largest Settlements, Massachusetts)

Each January, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly compiles and publishes its annual "Largest Verdicts and Settlements" of the year just completed. In this year's listing, Lubin & Meyer again dominates the list achieving 38 settlements of $1 million and above — more than 7 times as many as any other law firm in the Commonwealth.

Below are the 38 medical malpractice cases that Lubin & Meyer settled on behalf of injured clients in 2017.

Top Verdicts and Settlements - Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly

 

$4.5 million
Operation to insert pain pump leads to 76-year-old’s death
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson

$4 million
Aortic dissection leaves woman without use of her legs
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Krysia J. Syska

$3.75 million
Patient’s stroke attributed to lack of anticoagulant prescription
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorney: Robert M. Higgins

$3 million
Newborn suffers brain injury after extended pre-delivery distress
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer, Jr. and Robert M. Higgins

$3 million
 Newborn suffers debilitating brain injury during prolonged labor
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins

$3 million
 Death of 44-year-old man blamed on pathologist’s misreading of tongue biopsy
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and Adam R. Satin

$3 million
Woman, 25, with undiagnosed bowel obstruction dies during surgery
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson

$2.75 million
Stroke diagnosed as medication withdrawal before patient’s death
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins

$2.5 million
Patient says doctors failed to recognize signs of liver cancer
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson

$2.5 million
 Cancer spreads after going undiagnosed in removed appendix
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins

$2.5 million
Death from cancer blamed on doctors’ failure to tell patient of lung abnormalities
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and Adam R. Satin

$2 million
Blood clot kills 42-year-old woman following open hysterectomy
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Nicholas D. Cappiello

$2 million
Doctor allegedly overlooks MRSA, leading to man’s paralysis
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins

$2 million
Patient dies after developing neck hematoma post-surgery
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorney: Robert M. Higgins

$2 million
Delay in diagnosis blamed for patient’s thymic cancer death
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and Adam R. Satin

$1.99 million
Man’s quadriplegia attributed to trauma during spinal surgery
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson

$1.75 million
Newborn’s brain injury allegedly preventable with timely C-section
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Krysia J. Syska

$1.75 million
 Blocked stent leads to fatal heart attack in 56-year-old
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and William J. Thompson

$1.62 million
Man dies of heart attack after gastric bypass surgery
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Benjamin R. Novotny

$1.5 million
Doctor’s reading of EKG as normal blamed for woman’s death
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorney: Robert M. Higgins

$1.5 million
 Septic shock from abdominal leak kills woman after surgery for colon cancer
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins

$1.5 million
Patient says prognosis worsened by seven-month delay in lung cancer diagnosis
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson

$1.5 million
Man’s death linked to lack of meningitis diagnosis
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Adam R. Satin

$1.5 million
Internal bleeding causes patient’s death after hernia surgery
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Robert M. Higgins

$1.5 million
Sepsis leads to multiple organ failure, death following woman’s surgery
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorney: Robert M. Higgins

$1.25 million
Lung cancer patient’s diagnosis allegedly delayed by 18 months
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Benjamin R. Novotny

$1.25 million
Woman dies after two-year delay in leiomyosarcoma diagnosis
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson

$1.25 million
Doctors blamed for wasting time trying to convince 40-year-old Jehovah’s Witness to get blood transfusion; death results
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson

$1.2 million
Patient’s death blamed on doctor’s failure to recognize spleen injury aftercolonoscopy
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and Adam R. Satin

$1 million
Patient dies after tube, meant for stomach, enters brain through nostril
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorney: Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and William J. Thompson

$1 million
Death of man, 25, blamed on medication not being administered
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and Benjamin R. Novotny

$1 million
Man’s stroke blamed on failure to monitor Coumadin properly
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and Adam R. Satin

$1 million
Doctors blamed for not focusing on man’s meningioma sooner
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and William J. Thompson

$1 million
Patient dies of bladder cancer that went undiagnosed
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and Adam R. Satin

$1 million
Septic shock from C. Diff colitis causes 69-year-old woman’s death
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and Nicholas D. Cappiello

$1 million
Doctor’s failure to tell patient of elevated PSA blamed for prostate cancer death
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and Benjamin R. Novotny

$1 million
Student with mono dies of epiglottitis after being discharged from hospital
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and William J. Thompson

$1 million
Man develops paraplegia due to complications of spinal cord tumor
Action: Medical malpractice
Attorneys: Andrew C. Meyer and Nicholas D. Cappiello

To learn more about any of these cases, please contact us.

See also:

All Three "Million-Plus" Medical Malpractice Verdicts of 2016 Belong to Lubin & Meyer

Lubin & Meyer secures 35 million-plus settlements in 2016

Lubin & Meyer achieves 50 verdicts / settlements of $1 million+ in 2015

Lubin & Meyer achieves 5 of the top 8 verdicts for 2014

 

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