$500,000 Settlement for Hospital Fall and Fractured Skull

$500,000 medical malpractice settlement paid to a 90-year-old Westchester woman who, during a hospitalization in Stamford, Connecticut, for a knee injury she sustained in a car accident, she fell from her bed, sustaining a fractured skull. The victim required brain surgery to release the pressure and had an extensive rehabilitation. The plaintiff also recovered the maximum $100,000 policy available in the auto accident that placed her in the hospital.