VERDICT OR SETTLEMENT
BY MR. OFFUTT SINCE 2004
TENNESSEE - $33,400,000.00
LARGEST VERDICT IN TN HISTORY. JURY VERDICT FOR A LITTLE BOY FOR HIS BRAIN INJURY/CEREBRAL PALSY CAUSED BY OBSTETRICIAN FAILING TO TIMELY DELIVER HIM BY C-SECTION.
WISCONSIN – $10,000,000.00.
VERDICT/SETTLEMENT FOR LITTLE GIRL NEEDLESSLY CAUSED SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE (I.E.CEREBRAL PALSY) BY HER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS INATTENTION AND CARELESS CONDUCT.
MINNESOTA - $15,500,000.00
LARGEST MEDICAL MALPRACTICE VERDICT IN STATE HISTORY AT THE TIME. DHEVYN WAS CAUSED SERIOUS BRAIN DAMAGE BECAUSE HIS DOCTOR REFUSED TO COME IN TO THE HOSPITAL TO DELIVER HIM DESPITE THE NURSES REPEATED REQUESTS.
MARYLAND - $5,500,00.00
MENINGITIS (Brain Infection) CASE. LITTLE BOY WAS CAUSED SERIOUS BRAIN DAMAGE BECAUSE HIS HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS FAILED TO PROPERLY CARE FOR HIM WHEN AN INFECTION STARTED. DUE TO THE DELAY THIS CHILD WAS CAUSED NEEDLESS BRAIN INJURY.
WEST VIRGINIA – $5,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. LITTLE BOY WAS CARELESSLY INJURED WHEN HIS HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IGNORED SERIOUS WARNING SIGNS THAT HE NEEDED URGENT DELIVERY. THE DOCTORS AND NURSES NEGLIGENCE CAUSED THIS LITTLE BOY TO BE DEPRIVED OF OXYGEN FOR A SIGNIFICANT PERIOD OF TIME WHICH CAUSED SIGNIFICANT BRAIN DAMAGE.
WEST VIRGINIA – $6,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. ANOTHER CASE IN WEST VIRGINIA WHERE A LITTLE BOY’S HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS CARELESSLY FAILED TO DELIVERY HIM IN A TIMELY MANNER WHICH CAUSED SEVERE OXYGEN DEPRIVATION AND RESULTED IN CEREBRAL PALSY.
WEST VIRGINIA - $4,500,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. YET ANOTHER CASE IN WEST VIRGINIA WHERE THE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IGNORED OBVIOUS WARNING SIGNS THAT THIS LITTLE BOY WAS IN DANGER AND FAILED TO DELIVER HIM IN A TIMELY FASHION.
MINNESOTA – $9,200,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. LARGEST BIRTH INJURY VERDICT IN STATE OF MINNESOTA BEFORE MR. OFFUTT’S VERDICT ON BEHALF OF DHEVYN BLACKBURN LISTED ABOVE. ONCE AGAIN THIS LITTLE BOY’S HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS FAILED TO TIMELY DELIVER HIM WHICH LEAD TO HORRIBLE BRAIN DAMAGE.
MINNESOTA – $9,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. THIS LITTLE GIRL WAS IN NEED OF URGENT DELIVERY UPON ADMISSION AT THE HOSPITAL AND HER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS NEEDLESSLY DELAYED THIS DELIVERY BY HOURS AND HOURS. THE RESULT WAS OXYGEN DEPRIVATION AND CATASTROPHIC BRAIN DAMAGE WHICH RESULTED IN CEREBRAL PALSY.
MARYLAND – $1,200,000.00
WRONGFUL DEATH CASE. AS A RESULT OF IMPROPERLY REMOVING A CENTRAL LINE FOLLOWING A SIMPLE OPERATIVE PROCEDURE, THIS GENTLEMAN DEVELOPED AN AIR EMBOLISM WHICH CUT OFF HIS BLOOD SUPPLY AND RESULTED IN HIS DEATH. THE AMOUNT OF THIS SETTLEMENT IS REFLECTIVE OF THE FACT THAT THE STATE OF MARYLAND HAS A HARSH AND SOME SAY UNCONSTITUTIONAL CAP ON NON-ECONOMIC DAMAGES.
MARYLAND – $1,800,000.00
NEGLIGENT SURGICAL CARE. DUE TO A DOCTORS INAPPROPRIATE AND CARELESS SURGICAL PROCEDURE, THIS WOMAN WAS CAUSED TO SUSTAIN MASSIVE INJURIES INCLUDING SEVERE SEPSIS THROUGHOUT HER BODY.
MARYLAND - $2,500,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. A LITTLE GIRL WAS CAUSED MODERATE BRAIN DAMAGE DUE TO THE NEGLIGENT CARE OF HER HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS.
MINNESOTA – $8,500,000.00
FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE. A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY SUSTAINED A MILD STROKE AND WENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM FOR TREATMENT. UNBELIEVABLY THE EMERGENCY ROOM DOCTORS GAVE HIM NO DIAGNOSTIC TEST AND SENT HIM BACK HOME BECAUSE HIS SYMPTOMS HAD LESSENED. TEN HOURS AFTER GOING HOME HE THEN HAD A MAJOR (BUT PREVENTABLE) STROKE WHICH CAUSED HIM SERIOUS COGNITIVE AND PHYSICAL PERMANENT PROBLEMS.
MINNESOTA - $7,500,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. ANOTHER TRAGIC CASE DUE TO CARELESSNESS AND ARROGANCE. A FAMILY PRACTICE DOCTOR REFUSED TO BRING IN A SPECIALIST TO CARE FOR THIS LITTLE BOY’S MOM AND THEN FAILED TO HAVE A SURGEON AVAILABLE TO DELIVER THIS CHILD BY CESAREAN SECTION. THE RESULT WAS THAT THIS LITTLE WAS DELIVERED HOURS AFTER OBVIOUS SIGNS DEMANDED DELIVER AND CAUSED HIM OXYGEN DEPRIVATION AND SERIOUS BRAIN DAMAGE.
PENNSYLVANIA – $6,500,000.00
BRAIN DAMAGE. LITTLE GIRL WAS CAUSED SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE WHEN HER DOCTORS IGNORED OBVIOUS SIGNS THAT SHE WAS IN DISTRESS AND NEEDED TO BE DELIVERED. THIS WAS AN EGREGIOUS CASE WHERE THE HOSPITAL HID THE EVIDENCE UNTIL DAYS BEFORE TRIAL.
SOUTH CAROLINA – $800,000.00
BRACHIAL PLEXUS. THIS LITTLE GIRL’S DOCTORS FIRST MISINTERPRETED AN ULTRASOUND THAT WOULD HAVE REVEALED SHE WAS A LARGE BABY AND IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO DELIVER HER VAGINALLY. PREDICTABLY AT DELIVERY THE DOCTOR HAD A TERRIBLE TIME GETTING HER THROUGH THE BIRTH CANAL. MISTAKENLY, THE DOCTOR THEN PULLED ON THE LITTLE GIRL’S HEAD TO REMOVE HER WHICH SEVERELY INJURED HER BRACHIAL PLEXUS NERVE. THE LITTLE GIRL NOW HAS SIGNIFICANT DIFFICULTY WITH HER RIGHT ARM.
IOWA – $6,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. DUE TO THE CARELESSNESS OF DOCTORS AND NURSES, THIS LITTLE BOY WAS NOT DELIVERED IN A TIMELY MANNER. THIS CAUSED SERIOUS OXYGEN DEPRIVATION WHICH RESULTED IN SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE.
ALABAMA – $2,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. ANOTHER CASE WHERE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IGNORED OBVIOUS SIGNS OF DISTRESS AND FAILED TO DELIVER THIS LITTLE GIRL IN A TIMELY MANNER. THIS RESULTED IN MILD TO MODERATE BRAIN DAMAGE.
ILLINOIS – $7,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. ANOTHER CASE WHERE HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IGNORED OBVIOUS SIGNS OF DISTRESS AND FAILED TO DELIVER THIS LITTLE GIRL IN A TIMELY MANNER. THIS RESULTED IN MODERATE TO SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE.
NORTH CAROLINA – $5,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. THIS LITTLE BOY WAS SEVERELY INJURED BECAUSE OF OXYGEN DEPRIVATION. HE NEEDED HIS DOCTOR TO RECOGNIZE OBVIOUS SIGNS OF DISTRESS AND TO DELIVER HIM JUST ONE HOUR EARLIER. TRAGICALLY THE NURSES KNEW THIS AND ACTUALLY TOLD THE DOCTOR THIS NEEDED TO BE DONE BUT THEY STAYED SILENT AND WATCHED THIS DOCTOR COMMIT MALPRACTICE. BOTH THE HOSPITAL ON BEHALF OF THE NURSES AND THE DOCTOR WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS INJURY.
MARYLAND – $1,000,000.00
SURGICAL NEGLIGENCE. DUE TO A SERIOUS ANESTHESIA MISTAKE THIS WOMAN'S BLOOD PRESSURE PLUMMETED AND LEAD TO A STROKE WHICH LEFT HER WITH SOME EYESIGHT, BUT LEGALLY BLIND. A FURTHER TRAGEDY IN THIS CASE IS THAT THIS WAS A CASE AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WHICH PROTECTS ITSELF BY PUTTING CAPS ON AN AMOUNT THAT SOMEONE NEGLIGENTLY INJURED CAN RECOVER.
MINNESOTA – $750,000.00
WRONGFUL DEATH CASE. CHILD WAS TRAGICALLY CAUSED OXYGEN DEPRIVATION WHICH CAUSED SUCH SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE THAT THE CHILD LATER DIED FROM. BECAUSE OF THE LAWS IN MINNESOTA THERE IS A CAP ON WHAT CAN BE RECOVERED IN A WRONGFUL DEATH CASE.
MINNESOTA – $3,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. ANOTHER CASE WHERE A CHILD’S HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IGNORED OBVIOUS SIGNS OF DISTRESS AND FAILED TO DELIVER HIM BEFORE SERIOUS BRAIN DAMAGE WAS CAUSED. IN THIS CASE THE BRAIN DAMAGE WAS MILD/MODERATE.
MINNESOTA - $2,500,000.00
MILD CEREBRAL PALSY. ANOTHER CASE WHERE A CHILD’S HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IGNORED OBVIOUS SIGNS OF DISTRESS AND FAILED TO DELIVER HIM BEFORE BRAIN DAMAGE WAS CAUSED. IN THIS CASE THE BRAIN DAMAGE WAS MILD.
MINNESOTA – $4,250,000.00
FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE/BRAIN DAMAGE. THIS LITTLE BOY’S HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS COMMITTED A SERIES OF ERRORS. FIRST THEY FAILED TO DIAGNOSE A SERIOUS CONDITION HE HAD IN UTERO WHICH WOULD HAVE REQUIRED DELIVERY AT A HOSPITAL WITH PERSONNEL ABLE TO SAFELY DELIVER HIM. THEN THEY FAILED TO RECOGNIZE THAT HE WAS IN SERIOUS DISTRESS AFTER BIRTH AND OBTAIN AN IMMEDIATE TRANSFER TO AN APPROPRIATE FACILITY. THE END RESULT WAS SERIOUS BRAIN DAMAGE.
MINNESOTA – $4,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. IN THIS CASE THE NURSING STAFF KNEW THAT THIS CHILD’S DOCTOR WAS MAKING SERIOUS MISTAKES. THE NURSE DID IN FACT GO TO HER SUPERVISORS TO CORRECT THE SITUATION BUT HER EFFORTS WERE TOO LITTLE AND TOO LATE AND THIS LITTLE BOY SUFFERED SERIOUS OXYGEN DEPRIVATION WHICH LED TO CEREBRAL PALSY.
MINNESOTA – $6,000,000.00
BRAIN DAMAGE. MISMANAGEMENT OF LABOR AND DELIVERY RESULTED IN BRAIN DAMAGE AND CEREBRAL PALSY.
MINNESOTA – $6,000,000.00
FAILURE TO PERFORM EMERGENCY C-SECTION. RECOVERY OF SIX MILLION DOLLARS AFTER MEDICAL STAFF FAILED TO APPROPRIATELY INTERPRET AND RESPOND TO EVIDENCE OF FETAL COMPROMISE AND PERFORM EMERGENCY C-SECTION RESULTING IN BRAIN DAMAGE.
MINNESOTA – $4,500,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. RECOVERY FOR A CHILD WHO SUFFERED CEREBRAL PALSY AND MENTAL RETARDATION BECAUSE OF MISMANAGED LABOR AND DELIVERY.
MINNESOTA – $5,500,000.00
FAILURE TO RESPOND TO ELECTRONIC FETAL MONITORING DATA. MEDICAL STAFF DID NOT ACT ON CONCERNING FETAL MONITOR TRACINGS IN A TIMELY MANNER, LEADING TO BRAIN DAMAGE AND CEREBRAL PALSY.
MINNESOTA - $4,000,000.00
FAILURE TO MANAGE INFECTION. FAILURE TO MANAGE SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF AN INFECTION THAT DEVELOPED SHORTLY AFTER DELIVERY RESULTING IN MENINGITIS.
MINNESOTA – $13,500,000.00
LABOR AND DELIVERY MISMANAGEMENT. RECOVERY FOR A CHILD WHO SUFFERED CEREBRAL PALSY AND MENTAL RETARDATION DUE TO A MISMANAGED LABOR AND DELIVERY.
MARYLAND - $4,500,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. FAILURE OF THE DOCTOR AND HOSPITAL TO PROPERLY SUPERVISE A RESIDENT AND THEN FAILED TO STEP IN TO OBTAIN A TIMELY DELIVERY.
MARYLAND - $4,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. AFTER 14 YEARS THE PARENTS ASKED THE FIRM TO EVALUATE THE LABOR & DELIVERY CARE OF THEIR SON. CLEAR MISTAKES WERE FOUND AND A SETTLEMENT OBTAINED DAYS BEFORE TRIAL
MINNESOTA - $7,250,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. A COMBINATION OF ERRORS FROM THE CNM WHO MISREAD THE FHT TO THE OB WHO FAILED TO COME IN AND DELIVER THE CHILD TIMELY CAUSED SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE TO THIS LITTLE BOY
TENNESSEE - $4,500,00.00
CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS. BOTH THE DOCTOR AND THE NURSE FAILED TO RESPOND TO SIGNS OF DANGER THE LITTLE BOY WAS IN. THEY DELAYED DELIVERY AND CAUSED SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE.
MINNESOTA - $6,750,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS. THIS CHILD HAD DEVELOPED A CONDITION CAUSING HIM TO LOSE BLOOD TO HIS MOTHER. DESPITE THE CLEAR SIGNS THE BABY WAS IN TROUBLE THE DOCTOR AND NURSE FAILED TO RESPOND TIMELY BEFORE PERMANENT HARM TO HIS BRAIN HAD OCCURRED.
MARYLAND - $4,500,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS. ONCE AGAIN DOCTORS AND NURSES FAILED TO RESPOND TO CLEAR SIGNS THE BABY WAS NOT TOLERATING THE STRESS OF LABOR. THEIR DELAY IN CALLING A C-SECTION CAUSED SIGNIFICANT OXYGEN DEPRIVATION AND RESULTED IN BRAIN DAMAGE.
MINNESOTA - $6,150,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. ANOTHER CASE OF DOCTORS AND NURSES FAILING TO RESPOND TO CLEAR SIGNS THE BABY WAS NOT TOLERATING THE STRESS OF LABOR. THEIR DELAY IN CALLING A C-SECTION CAUSED SIGNIFICANT OXYGEN DEPRIVATION AND RESULTED IN BRAIN DAMAGE.
MINNESOTA - $5,200,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. DESPITE CLEAR SIGNS THE BABY WAS BECOMING HYPOXIC (DECREASED OXYGEN) THE DOCTOR FAILED TO CONVERT THIS VAGINAL DELIVERY TO A C-SECTION. SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE ENSUED.
MINNESOTA - $10,000,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY AND DEVELOPMENTAL DELAYS. THE DOCTOR CARELESSLY EVALUATED THE BABY TO BE IN PROPER POSITION FOR A VAGINAL DELIVERY. HOWEVER, HE WAS 100% WRONG. THE BABY WAS IN BREECH. HE THEN LEFT THE ROOM AND HAD THE NURSES PUSH. THE UMBILICAL CORD GOT PINCHED AS THEY IMPROPERLY TRIED FOR A VAGINAL DELIVERY AND THEN SCRAMBLED TO DO A C-SECTION. OXYGEN DEPRIVATION WAS OCCURRING AND RESULTED IN SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE.
MARYLAND - $5,500,00.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. CALAMITY OR ERRORS STARTING WITH A MISTAKE IN ASSESSING THE BABY TO BE FULLY TERM WHEN CUT INTO MOM TO DO A C-SECTION NEEDLESSLY. THE BABY WAS STILL UNDERDEVELOPED AND SUFFERED RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF PREMATURITY AND RESULTED IN BRAIN DAMAGE.
MARYLAND - $9,400,000.00
CEREBRAL PALSY. THE NURSE FAILED TO RESPOND TO THE FHM TELLING HER THAT AN EMERGENCY WAS IN PROGRESS. SHE DELAYED SO LONG THAT THE BABY SUSTAINED SEVERE BRAIN DAMAGE.
