Pettaway v. Coastal Anesthesia, P.C., et al.
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-07-901577 ($20 million jury verdict for family of woman who died after her anesthesia care team failed to follow the accepted standards of care in administering her anesthesia).

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Watson v. St. Vincent’s Hospital
Jefferson County, Alabama Case CV-03-0983 ($4 million verdict for family of woman with suspected bowel obstruction who died after there was a failure to provide adequate fluid replacement which lead to severe intravascular depletion and death).

Timmons v. Anesthesia & Pain Medicine of Montgomery, P.C.
Montgomery County, Alabama ($14.5 million verdict for mother of 17-year old child who died as a consequence of improper extubation and inadequate monitoring in post-anesthesia care unit after undergoing elective TMJ surgery).

Currin v. Shelby Medical Center, et al.
Shelby County, Alabama ($3.850 million settlement for family of minor who was born with severe neurological defects due to lack of oxygen during a delayed labor, despite clear signs of significant non-reassuring fetal distress).

Powell vs. Andalusia Regional Hospital
Covington County, Alabama ($700,000 settlement for family of child who was permanently injured during birth due to doctor’s order and nurse’s performance of fundal pressure, a damaging and medically unnecessary maneuver without any medical benefit under the circumstances).

Simonson v. Mobile Infirmary
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of decedent who died in hospital after being given large amounts of potassium meant for another patient).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Montgomery County, Alabama (confidential settlement regarding man who died because of a missed hematoma).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement regarding anesthesia death of 43-year-old hip surgery patient).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement regarding drug overdose of a 72-year-old post-surgical patient).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement regarding three-year-old who underwent a routine dental procedure when the defendants negligently administered an overdose of Lidocaine and/or other agents which caused her to suffer an episode of cardiac arrest, which ultimately resulted in her death).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for estate of young schizophrenic institutionalized in state mental hospital who died from undiagnosed acute appendicitis).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Baldwin County, Alabama (confidential settlement for wrongful death of 18-year-old with profound cerebral palsy who was allowed to drown in a bathtub by her caretakers).

Larrimore v. Springhill Memorial Hospital
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-2002-3205 ($4 million jury verdict against hospital pharmacy for giving bad dosing information to emergency room doctor, who, in reliance on that information, prescribed fatal dosing regimen of Colchicine for a patient with gout).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for estate of elderly man who died from intracranial/subdural hemorrhage from hitting his head in an automobile accident and failure of hospital emergency personnel to properly and timely recognize and treat his symptoms despite the fact that they were told he was on Coumadin).

Tyler v. Mobile Infirmary Association
Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-00-2202 ($5.5 million verdict for the estate of a woman who died of acute mesenteric ischemia; failure of hospital to accurately monitor and report patient's condition to treating doctors).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of man who underwent surgery for repair of ventral incisional hernia during which his distal ilium was perforated. Patient died due to delay in diagnosis of perforated viscus and delay of surgical repair of same).

Causey v. Physicians at USA Medical Center
(settlement in medical malpractice case for wrongful death of infant case settled prior to suit being filed).

Ard v. South Baldwin Hospital
Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-87-303 ($5.5 million jury verdict for family of little girl left brain damaged during a routine appendectomy).

Baker v. Prescott
Clarke County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-0024 (settlement in medical malpractice case).

Baker v. Lee, Winston County
Alabama Case No. CV-91-43 (settlement in medical malpractice/undiagnosed Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever death case).

Lillian West, as Adm. v. Montrose Bay Health Care Center
Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-617 (wrongful death verdict in nursing home negligence case).

Mack v. Lasecki
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-91-1945 (settlement in medical malpractice/death from anesthesia during ingrown toenail surgery).

Autrey v. Hasek
Mobile County, Alabama Case Number CV-92-4776 (settlement in medical malpractice case).

Aguilar v. Plaza Nursing Center, et al.
Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial District, Jackson County, Mississippi Case No. CV-92-5222(1) (settlement for family of nursing home resident who died from allegedly inappropriate use of restraints).

Holliday v. Jackson Hospital, et al.
Montgomery County, Alabama Case No. CV-93-146 (settlement in medical malpractice case concerning negligent administration of Heparin).

Zinnerman v. Cooper Green Hospital, et al.
Jefferson County, Alabama Case No. CV-93-2044 (settlement in medical malpractice/brain damage and coma due to ventilator hose detachment).

Lee v. Dempsey, Mobile County
Alabama Case No. CV-93-2106-EBM (settlement in medical malpractice/child abandonment after surgery by physician - death case).

Childress v. Sepic, Escambia County
Alabama Case No. CV-94-166 (wrongful death verdict in medical malpractice case concerning ruptured placenta during labor which resulted in death of twins).

Furr v. DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Case No. CV-94-1060 (settlement in medical malpractice case for negligently allowing patient to choke on medication and failure to promptly respond and resuscitate).

Bettis v. Mobile Infirmary
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-94-1494 (medical malpractice verdict in wrongful death case).

Sanders v. Ward, et al.
Clarke County, Alabama Case No. CV-95-36 (pro tanto settlements and verdict for victim of botched laparoscopic procedure).

Camp v. Roh
Baldwin County, Alabama Case No. CV-95-0374 (medical malpractice verdict regarding undiagnosed breast cancer case).

Johnson v. Hyman
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-97-3358 (settlement of medical malpractice/wrongful death case).

Sorrells v. Buzhardt, et al
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-97-3359 (settlement in wrongful death case of a baby who died shortly after birth allegedly because of nurses' failure to notify doctor of changes in mother's condition).

Emmons v. Willow Tree Nursing Center, et al.
Choctaw County, Alabama Case No. CV-98-011-M (settlement for victim of nursing home neglect).

Maxwell v. Providence Hospital
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-99-0987-FDM (wrongful death settlement in nursing negligence case for failure to restrain).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of a man who had a heart attack in parking lot of hospital and was refused prompt admission to hospital or treatment in violation of Emergency Medical Treatment and Liability Act).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlements for mother and child left severely brain damaged from physician's failure to timely diagnose pre-eclampsia and failure to timely perform Caesarean section).

Kendall v. Vizzi
Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-95-133 (Settlement for victim of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ("ERCP") and sphincterotomy which led to hypotension, sepsis, gangrene and, ultimately, quadrilateral amputations).

Rudolph v. Harco
Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-97-039 (Settlement for victim of misfilled prescription of Prednisone).

Brown v. Mobile Infirmary
Mobile County, Alabama Case No. CV-99-1050 (Confidential settlement for family of plaintiff who died as a result of a femoral artery bleed while patient in CCU).

Enfinger v. Greene
Dale County, Alabama Circuit Court Case No. CV-98-66 (verdict for mother of stillborn child based on OB-GYN's failure to diagnose preeclampsia).

Bowler v. Miller
Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-99-3250(confidental settlement involving University of South Alabama Medical Center resident physicians for the wrongful death of a baby from chorioamnionitis).

Long v. LaFleur
Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-98-1728(confidential settlement for family under Alabama's "wrongful birth" cause of action(see Keel v. Banach, 624 So.2d 1022(ALA. 1993)).

Baker v. Anesthesia Services, Inc., et al
Mobile County, Alabama, Circuit Court Civil Action No. CV-2000-0126(settlement for man rendered comatose as a consequence of improper airway management during elective surgery for tooth extraction).

Kirk v. Allison, et al
Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for family of victim of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ("ERCP") and sphincterotomy which led to sepsis, renal failure, multi-organ infections and death).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama (confidential settlement for child left severely brain damaged from physician's failure to timely perform a Caesarean section in the face of non-reassuring fetal status and prolonged decelerations).

Dillard v. Boles
Dillard v. Boles, Dale County, Alabama No. CV-02-229-Q (settlement for family of man who died as a result of a perforation of his aorta during elective laparoscopic fundoplication surgery).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Anonymous v. Anonymous, Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama (settlement for birth injury arising from delayed C-section delivery).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Anonymous v. Anonymous, Escambia County, Alabama (confidential settlement for man who suffered a reaction to pain medications for kidney stones, which went undetected and untreated, and caused him to go into respiratory arrest and die the morning after admission to the hospital).

Reynolds v. Mobile Infirmary Association
Reynolds v. Mobile Infirmary Association, Mobile Emergency Group, P.C. and Dr. Russ Tongco, Mobile County, Alabama Circuit Court, Civil Action No. CV-01-2075-JRL ($2.75 million verdict for estate of 70-year-old woman on Coumadin who died of an acute subdural hematoma after having presented to the ER with head trauma; failure to perform a CT scan prior to discharge).

Anonymous v. Anonymous
Anonymous v. Anonymous, Wilcox County, Alabama (confidential settlement after years of litigation, including a successful appeal by the plaintiff to the Supreme Court of Alabama (Ex parte Curtis Wilson, 854 So.2d 1106 (Ala. 2002)) regarding venue. 31-year-old wife and mother died after an elective laparoscopy after her esophagus was ruptured during the anesthesia process).