$1.5M Settlement for Failure to Diagnose Spinal Abscess

$1.5 million medical malpractice settlement to victim’s estate for a hospital’s failure to diagnose and treat a condition known as spinal epidural abscess. The hospital argued that the condition was extremely difficult to diagnose because it was consistent with multiple pathologies. However, our experts opined that routine follow-up on any of the differential diagnoses, as well as film studies, would have revealed the existence of the abscess such that it could have been treated before resulting in permanent injury.