1 - 100
| Award: | n/a | Mediated Settlement |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice - Failure to Diagnose |
| Case: |
Christina McDonald, Barbara McDonald and Dwight McDonald v. Mool P. Nigam, M.D. |
| Venue: |
Harris County District Court, 133rd |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
October 23, 2002 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Pediatric Neurology |
| Summary: |
Barbara and Dwight McDonald and their daughter Christina sued Mool P. Nigam, a neurologist, alleging medical malpractice in the failure to diagnose gangliocytoma in Christina's brain. Christina Mc... |
| Award: | $287,259.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff |
| Case Types: | Wrongful Death - Survival Damages | Wrongful Death | Nursing Homes - Negligent Supervision |
| Case: |
Eunice Cornelius and Johnny Burkhalter, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Marjorie Burkhalter vs. Sherwood Health Care, Inc. |
| Venue: |
Brazos County District Court, 361st |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
October 30, 2003 |
| Experts: |
John S. Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
On Feb. 2, 1998, plaintiffs' decedent, Marjorie Burkhalter, 80, became a resident at Sherwood Nursing Home in Bryan. On Jan. 5, 2000, she was transferred from her bed into a wheelchair and she sustain... |
| Award: | $400,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff |
| Case Types: | Products Liability - Design Defect | Products Liability - Pharmaceutical | Intentional Torts - Conspiracy |
| Case: |
Miguel Valverde v. Bayer Corp. |
| Venue: |
El Paso County Court at Law No. 5 |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
October 13, 2004 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
In 1997, plaintiff Miguel Valverde, 25, a truck driver, sustained a hemorrhagic stroke due to a ruptured aneurysm. He alleged that, 11 hours earlier, he had taken Alka-Seltzer Plus for cold symptoms, ... |
| Award: | n/a | Verdict-Defendant |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice - Anesthesiology | Medical Malpractice - Back Surgery |
| Case: |
Mary Lou Barnett v. Stephen Graham, M.D., and Tx-An Anesthesia & Pain Management, LLP |
| Venue: |
Dallas County District Court, 44th |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
June 16, 2005 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
In February 2003, plaintiff Mary Lou Barnett, about 50 and suffering from chronic back pain, had an intrathecal morphine pump implanted. General anesthesia was used. The device included a cathet... |
| Award: | $6,059,015.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff |
| Case Types: | Motor Vehicle - Tractor-Trailer | Motor Vehicle - Red Light | Motor Vehicle - Intersection |
| Case: |
In the Guardianship of Lawanna Dewberry, Non Compos Mentis |
| Venue: |
Harris County Court at Law, No. 1 |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
October 12, 2005 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
On Aug. 12, 1999, plaintiff Lawanna Dewberry, 22, was in an intersection collision with an 18-wheeler that ran a red light. Her car hit the truck cab, then rotated and was crushed under the trailer, i... |
| Award: | $700,000.00 | Settlement |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice | Wrongful Death |
| Case: |
Estate of Dorothy Hollar v. Bon Secours Health System |
| Venue: |
Wayne County, Circuit Court, Detroit |
| State: |
MI |
| Date: |
July 18, 2005 |
| Experts: |
John Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
An active senior citizen spent the final three years of her life in a state of advanced dementia after she allegedly received an excessive dose of an opioid analgesic in defendant's emergency room. Th... |
| Award: | n/a | Verdict-Defendant |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice - Abandonment | Negligence - Negligent Supervision | Slips, Trips & Falls | Wrongful Death - Survival Damages |
| Case: |
Juan Castillo, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Consuelo Castillo, Deceased, and Leticia Castillo, Consuelo Castillo, Juana Castillo, Julia Rodrigues, Tomasa Bernal and Maria Colorado, as Next of Kin of Consuelo Castillo, Deceased v. Rio Grande Regional Hospital |
| Venue: |
Hidalgo County District Court, 370th |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
June 06, 2006 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
On Jan. 26, 2001, plaintiff's decedent Consuelo Castillo, 71, a homemaker, died in her home. About three months earlier, on Oct. 24, 2000, Castillo underwent exploratory surgery that was performed... |
| Award: | $863,180.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice | Hospital Negligence |
| Case: |
Wallis v. Hospital Corp. of Lanier |
| Venue: |
Hall County, Superior Court |
| State: |
GA |
| Date: |
May 03, 2001 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
Plaintiff, who was 93 years old, presented to the emergency room at defendant's Lanier Park Hospital for treatment of a bowel blockage. A physician directed one of defendant's nurses to administer 15 ... |
| Award: | $650,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff |
| Case Types: | WC (New Law) or WC (Old Law) |
| Case: |
Lora Longstreet as Legal Guardian for Bassett Edgar Longstreet vs. The Aetna Casualty & Surety Company |
| Venue: |
Calhoun County Court |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
October 18, 1999 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) cerebrovascular surgery, neurology |
| Summary: |
... |
| Award: | n/a | Verdict-Defendant |
| Case Types: | ADA |
| Case: |
Connie Garrett vs. Medpartners, Inc., d/b/a Kelsey-Seybold Clinic |
| Venue: |
United States District Court, Southern District, Houston |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
July 05, 1999 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) neurology |
| Summary: |
... |
| Award: | $2,810,000.00 | Settlement |
| Case Types: | Toxic Tort |
| Case: |
William Tramel, et al. vs. Best Group, Texas Utilities and Odyssey Resource Management |
| Venue: |
Henderson County District Court, 3rd |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
April 26, 1999 |
| Experts: |
John S. Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
x ... |
| Award: | $898,155.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff |
| Case Types: | WC (New Law) or WC (Old Law) |
| Case: |
Bassett Edgar Longstreet vs. Aetna Surety & Casualty Co. |
| Venue: |
Calhoun County Court |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
May 18, 1998 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) neurology |
| Summary: |
... |
| Award: | $300,000.00 | Settlement |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice |
| Case: |
Jack Noble vs. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Texas and John B. Delcambre, M.D. |
| Venue: |
Dallas County District Court, 192nd |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
October 19, 1998 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) neurology |
| Summary: |
... |
| Award: | n/a | Settlement |
| Case Types: | Malpractice - Pharmacy |
| Case: |
Barbara L. Beeman, by and through Doris Kelton, as Guardian of the Person and Estate of Barbara L. Beeman; The Estate of Barbara L. Beeman and Doris Kelton, Ind. vs. H. E. Butt Grocery Company, Luther |
| Venue: |
Bexar County District Court, 73rd |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
June 02, 1997 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) neurology |
| Summary: |
... |
| Award: | n/a | Verdict-Defendant |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice |
| Case: |
Rosemary Leon v. St. John''s Hospital and St. Joseph''s Hospital |
| Venue: |
Westchester Supreme |
| State: |
NY |
| Date: |
June 18, 2001 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
Pltf., a 30-year-old homemaker, claimed that in May 1994, Deft. Hospitals misdiagnosed a stroke as Bell''s palsy, and failed to treat the stroke with anticoagulants. Pltf. presented to St. John''s Hos... |
| Award: | n/a | Verdict-Defendant |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice | Negligence |
| Case: |
David Ashcraft and Ruby Ashcraft v. Princeton Medical Group, P.A. d/b/a Wellmed at Greenway Park, Marlene Sanchez, M.D. and Steven Fisher, M.D. |
| Venue: |
Bexar County District Court, 288th |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
June 01, 2001 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) neurology |
| Summary: |
The plaintiffs alleged that Drs. Marlene Sanchez and Steven Fisher misdiagnosed the possibility that 65-year-old Ruby Ashcraft had the potential for a stroke. Ashcraft presented to the office of Princ... |
| Award: | n/a | Verdict-Defendant |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice | Wrongful Death (Any WD Case) | Survival | Negligence |
| Case: |
William Brotherton, individually and as representative of the estate of Larissa Brotherton, and Deborah Brotherton v. Kathy Toler, M.D., and Lee Kesterson, M.D. |
| Venue: |
Tarrant County District Court, 342nd |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
April 25, 2001 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) neurology |
| Summary: |
For about a month, beginning on March 3, 1997, Larissa Brotherton, a saleswoman for Foley's, was under the care of neurologist Kathy Toler, M.D., for a continuous, severe headache, which Toler diagnos... |
| Award: | $820,061.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff |
| Case Types: | Motor Vehicle |
| Case: |
Peggy McLain, Individually and as Guardian of LaWanna Dewberry (NCM) and as Next Friend of Vantrice Dewberry v. Johnny J. Hunt, Allied Metals, Inc. and Hughes Supply, Inc. |
| Venue: |
Harris County District Court, 281st |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
May 17, 2002 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
A Harris County jury, in a 10 - 2 vote, found the driver of a tractor-trailer 75% responsible for an intersection collision that left a 25-year-old woman with a serious brain injury necessitating 24-h... |
| Award: | $3,180,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice | Product Liability |
| Case: |
Mohammad Tamoozi, Individually and As Next Friend of April Noori Tamoozi, Ashley Marie Tamoozi and Audri Ann Tamoozi v. Sofamor Danek Group, Sofamor Danek, L.P., Surgical Navigation Technologies, Robert Levinthal, M.D. and Park Plaza Hospital |
| Venue: |
Harris County District Court, 165th |
| State: |
TX |
| Date: |
June 19, 2002 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
A Harris County jury awarded a 53-year-old civil engineer $3,180,000 for injuries he sustained during a surgical procedure to remove a tumor from his brain. The physician used an image-guided navigati... |
| Award: | $5,000,000.00 | Verdict-Plaintiff |
| Case Types: | Medical Malpractice |
| Case: |
Cedric Fernandes and Diana Fernandes, husband and wife v. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, William Shoff, M.D., and Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania |
| Venue: |
Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas |
| State: |
PA |
| Date: |
December 05, 2002 |
| Experts: |
John Stirling Meyer (Houston TX) Neurology |
| Summary: |
Plaintiff Cedric Fernandes, 57, was admitted to Haverford Community Hospital with complaints of headache, blurred vision, numbness, dizziness and throbbing in his left eye. Doctors sensed an impending... |
