Failure to Diagnosis Pulmonary Embolism Results in Wrongful Death
A Confidential Settlement was Reached
Mr. G was a 31-year-old husband and father who died of a pulmonary embolism approximately one week after back surgery. Following his surgery, Mr. G experienced symptoms that should have alerted his doctors and nurses to the possibility that he had developed deep venous thrombosis, which leads to pulmonary embolism. Mr. G had many specialists evaluate him during his hospital stay, but no one coordinated his care and put together the information obtained by the different experts.
The Eisen Law Firm did what the doctors failed to do: it put together all of the pieces and showed that the failure of the hospital to make sure that someone was in charge of Mr. G’s care ultimately caused his death.
Once the pieces were put together, the hospital and several doctors paid a confidential settlement.