Colleran Practice Specialties

Medical Malpractice

Generally, medical malpractice occurs when a physician or other healthcare provider fails to provide appropriate medical care resulting in harm to the patient.

Frequent examples of medical malpractice include:

	Mismanaged labor and delivery
	Surgical or anesthesia errors
	Failure to timely diagnose cardiac disease
	Cancer and other serious illnesses
	Failure to properly interpret diagnostic studies
	Improper administration of medication
	Failure to obtain a patient's informed consent prior to a surgical procedure
	Failure to appropriately monitor a patient's illness in a hospital or outpatient setting

These errors can cause a wide variety of injuries and medical concerns including death, shortened life expectancy, brain damage, spinal cord trauma, peripheral nerve damage and other serious complications.

Recent Colleran Firm medical-related successes include:

	An $8,000,000 settlement on behalf of a man who sustained catastrophic injuries while working in a construction zone
	A $7,250,000 settlement on behalf of brain-injured child
	A $7,500,000 Philadelphia County jury award on behalf of a 15-year-old by who suffered a below-the-knee amputation due to substandard medical care after breaking his ankle during a football game
	A $6,200,000 settlement of a medical malpractice action on behalf of a brain-injured man.
	A $5,000,000 Philadelphia County jury award on behalf of a woman whose breast cancer was not timely diagnosed
	A $4,900,000 Luzerne County jury award on behalf a woman who suffered a substantial bleed leading to permanent neurologic injury as a consequence of surgical error
	A $4,800,000 Philadelphia County jury award on behalf of a woman who sustained a host of complications after a suffering a massive bleed caused by medical negligence during a cesarian section
	A $4,500,000 Philadelphia County jury award on behalf of the Estate of a woman who died the day following a hysterectomy
	A $4,200,000 settlement on behalf of brain-injured child
	A $3,600,000 settlement in Montgomery County on behalf of a brain-injured child
	A $3,500,000 Philadelphia County jury award on behalf of a woman who sustained permanent injury as a result of a negligently performed knee replacement surgery
	A $3,000,000 settlement on behalf of the Estate of a woman who died shortly following childbirth
	A $2,900,000 Philadelphia County jury award on behalf of a man who suffered permanent neurologic injury as a result of a physician's failure to timely decompress his spinal cord
	A $2,900,000 Philadelphia County jury award on behalf of the Estate of a man who died after his cardiac issues were not appropriately addressed
	A $2,500,000 Montgomery County jury award on behalf of the Estate of a man who died after his cardiac issues were not appropriately addressed
	A $2,500,000 Philadelphia County jury award on behalf of a woman who suffered permanent injury after suffering a delay in diagnosis of her neurosarcoidosis
	A $2,100,000 Philadelphia County jury award on behalf of a man left with cognitive and motor impairment after suffering a delay in diagnosis and treatment of encephalitis
	A $2,100,000 jury award on behalf of a woman who suffered a delay in diagnosis of her colon cancer
	A $2,000,000 Lackawanna County jury award on behalf of a man who developed avascular necrosis of his hips due to over-prescription of steroids.
	An $1,800,000 Chester County jury award on behalf of a man who suffered an above-the-knee amputation as a result of the negligence of his vascular surgeon.
	A $1,700,000 Bucks County jury award on behalf of a man who suffered permanent neurologic injury after his brain hemorrhage went untimely diagnosed.