Record $24,100,00 Verdict – Birth Trauma – Cerebral Palsy (Seminole County, FL)
What is the reason for many catastrophic medical mistakes? Just like with airplane crashes and other major disasters, usually there […]
$11,250,000 Settlement – Birth Trauma Causing Brain Damage (Central Florida)
When babies are harmed during delivery, the consequences can last a lifetime. When they are deprived of oxygen, they suffer […]
$9,000,000 settlement – brain damage following surgery
What happens when someone goes into the hospital for a “routine” procedure…but comes out in a vegetative state? That’s what […]
$4,750,000 Settlement – wrongful death from medical mistake
Medical mistakes can come in lots of shapes and sizes. In this case a young mother of two went to […]
$4,300,000 settlement – delay in treatment (Chicago)
Cheryl Wiedenbeck was a book editor and mother of her two young daughters, ages 2 and 8 months. She developed […]
$3,750,000 settlement – Birth Injury (Central Florida)
The medical community knows that certain types of pregnancies have much higher complication rates. This is particularly true where a […]
$3,000,000 settlement – wrongful death (Citrus County)
What happens when a doctor abandons a patient? They are left on their own. The other doctors and nurses treating […]
$2,575,000 Settlement – Improper Medication – Wrongful Death (Broward County)
The statistics regarding medical errors while hospitalized are startling. It is estimated that 50% of all hospital admissions result in […]
$1,520,000 Settlement – Neurologic injury from surgery at outpatient surgery center
Outpatient surgical centers have popped up almost everywhere. Touted as a way to reduce health care costs, these facilities can […]
$1,510,000 Settlement – Mother’s Death Following Childbirth (Miami)
The birth of a child is supposed to be the most joyous event in someone’s life. For women, it is […]
$1,125,000 Settlement – Death of Woman Following Delivery due to DIC
How could a woman deliver a healthy baby in a major hospital and then bleed to death right in front […]
$1.1 Million for Anesthesia Malpractice at Ambulatory Surgery Center
With the proliferation of outpatient surgery centers (“ambulatory surgery centers”), more and more medical mistakes are taking places in locations […]
$1,050,000 Settlement – Death of Disabled Child in Emergency Room
Every child deserves quality medical care. This is particularly true for children with disabilities and medical conditions. Our client had […]
$1 million recovery for family of woman killed by gastric bypass malpractice
With a large percentage of Americans overweight, many people consider gastric bypass surgery. Many physicians favor this treatment as a […]
Confidential Settlement – Death of man from neglect in emergency room
When someone goes into an emergency room they do that because their condition is serious enough to get immediate, emergency […]
$782,000 settlement – Failure to diagnose neck injury in ER
Our client was a 52 year-old man who went to the emergency room with back and neck pain following a […]
$750,000 settlement – post surgical infections
Leighton Law’s John Leighton and Max Panoff recovered $750,000 for a woman who sustained post-surgical infections after the orthopedic surgeon […]
$750,000 settlement – sinus surgery malpractice
Medical mistakes can have deadly consequences. When our client went to the doctor he was seeking help for a sinus […]
$700,000 Settlement – Death from Bariatric Surgery/gastric bypass
Bariatric surgery for weight loss has become very popular in the United States. While it is one way to help […]
$600,000 Settlement – Improper Treatment for Infection (Charlotte County, FL)
An injury to a child is always a tragedy. It is made worse when the people a parent trusts with […]
$600,000 settlement – improper treatment of eye infection
Eye infections are common ailments. Most of the time they can be treated without any serious consequence…unless the health care […]
$500,000 settlement – failure to diagnose cardiac condition
John Elliott Leighton obtained a confidential $500,000 settlement for the family of a man whose primary care doctor failed to […]
$500,000 Settlement – improper medication administration
A 65 year-old woman was under the care of doctors for a heart condition. The doctors changed her medication suddenly, […]
$500,000 settlement – failure to diagnose lung cancer
John Elliott Leighton represented a 68 year-old woman who was seen by a doctor at the hospital with a serious […]
$450,000 settlement – Improper injection in arm causing neurologic injury
John Elliott Leighton represented a man who went to the emergency room and was given an injection. The nurse gave […]
$400,000 Settlement – failure to prevent DVT
A confidential settlement was obtained following the failure to properly assess and score a patient for the risk of DVT/pulmonary […]
$325,000 settlement – plastic surgery malpractice
A 60 year-old man experienced infection and complications following a liposuction procedure. The surgeon, who previously had been disciplined by […]
$300,000 settlement – failure to treat eye infection (Central Florida)
Leighton Law represented a man who sought treatment from a doctor for an eye infection. The doctor failed to properly […]
$200,000 Settlement – dental malpractice – broken jaw
A dental patient undergoing a tooth extraction sustained a broken jaw during the procedure. John Elliott Leighton brought a case […]
Confidential Settlement – death of woman due to cardiac procedure error
A woman who was undergoing a pericardiocentesis for a cardiac tamponade was killed when the physician punctured her heart during […]
Confidential Agreement – death of a woman due to a mistake in a cardiac procedure
A woman undergoing pericardiocentesis for cardiac tamponade died when the doctor punctured her heart during the procedure. John Elliott Leighton […]
Confidential settlement – death of woman from surgical error
John Leighton recovered a confidential settlement from a major Miami hospital as a result of the death of a 32 […]
Confidential settlement – wrong site surgery (Broward County)
A man suffering from cancer was the victim of a wrong site surgery. The surgeon operated on the wrong area […]
Confidential Settlement – Neurosurgeon lacerates artery during surgery
After an injury, a woman went to see an neurosurgeon about a surgical repair. She needed a fusion of her […]
Confidential Settlement – Fractured hip in elderly patient
Our client, a 91 year-old woman with advanced cancer and dementia, was admitted to a hospital with cardiac problems. The […]
