$5.45M Settlement for Wrongful Death During C-Section

$5.45 million paid during trial by the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, on behalf of Metropolitan Hospital, to a 17-year-old mother’s Estate. The mother, who was 37 weeks pregnant, went into fetal distress. She died during an emergency C-section. We argued the defendants failed to observe signs of ovarian vein thrombosis, which deprived the patient of blood supply and created ovarian necrosis. By not removing the ovaries, a blood clot grew and traveled to the patient’s lungs, leading to an embolism and death. The baby, while premature, was born healthy.