$1,125,000 Settlement – Mother’s Death During Childbirth

Attorney John Elliott Leighton represented the husband of a woman killed through medical malpractice following delivery of a healthy newborn baby.  The woman developed a laceration during delivery, which went undetected and untreated.  The bleeding became more profound and resulted in disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC), which caused her death.  Leighton obtained payment of the full policy limits of all of the responsible health care providers of $1,125,000. Estate of L.A. v. WS.

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