Lexington and Cincinnati Managing Partner Judd Uhl recently obtained a defense verdict on behalf of an insured radiologist client in Montgomery County, Ohio following a two-week wrongful death trial. The plaintiff in this matter was the administrator of the estate of a 71-year-old female decedent. The plaintiff claimed Lewis Brisbois' client had misread a CT scan.
The decedent had initially presented to the emergency room with complaints of severe abdominal pain. She had battled stomach pain on and off for two years and had seen GI specialists with no diagnosis. The decedent was admitted to the hospital and a CT scan was ordered. The radiologist believed the likely cause of the abdominal pain was a distended gall bladder, so the decedent was admitted to the hospital for observation and discharged the next day after her pain had resolved. She was found unconscious 17 hours later and a follow up CT scan showed a cecal volvulus.
The plaintiff brought suit on behalf of the decedent's estate, claiming the radiologist had missed the cecal volvulus diagnosis on the first CT scan. Plaintiff's counsel made a settlement demand in the high six-figure range. No counteroffer was made by the defense. After two weeks of trial, the jury returned a complete defense verdict for the radiologist.
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