Staten Island Man Receives $5.4 Million in Medical Malpractice Suit
“I’m happy [about the verdict] but I’d give every dime back to walk,” says a Staten Island man who recently won a multimillion-dollar medical malpractice suit. According to a story on silive.com, following a health episode in 2006, the man was taken to the hospital where he required sedation and intubation. His doctors diagnosed him with encephalopathy, meaning brain dysfunction. The man was already suffering from several other health issues before being hospitalized, including obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and gall stones.
Several days after being admitted to the hospital, the man developed severe bedsores. The bedsores worsened and appeared on more parts of the man’s body, requiring surgery in some cases to remove dead and infected tissue. Over the next year, the man was moved back and forth between the hospital and a nursing home. At one point, during a visit to the hospital for treatment of a bedsore, it was found that the man had developed osteomyelitis, an acute or chronic bone infection, in his right hip. The man’s hip is now dislocated and he must use a wheelchair but he cannot have surgery to repair the hip because of the infection, says his lawyer.
The man sued the hospital, claiming that improper treatment of his bedsores led to the infection and dislocation. The man was awarded $5.4 million dollars by the New York state Supreme Court, 75 percent of which will come from the hospital, which was found partially liable for the man’s injuries.
If you or someone you love has been injured or killed in Staten Island as a result of negligence by a hospital or its staff, the Staten Island medical malpractice attorneys at Wingate, Russotti and Shapiro, LLP can help you. Call today at 212-986-7353 to set up an appointment to speak with our experienced New York hospital negligence lawyers.
