Personal Injury Law

New Hampshire Hospital to Pay $1.25 Million in Medical Malpractice Suit

By Louthian Law Firm

A Nashua, New Hampshire couple will receive $1.25 million in a settlement with Tufts Medical Center in a medical malpractice suit filed after the man's 2003 kidney transplant went wrong. The patient received a perfect-match donor kidney from his brother, but the kidney failed after only a week.

The couple claimed negligence by the staff when they failed to recognize the tell-tale sign of decreased urine output that the kidney was failing. The attending physician was not called in and a renal ultrasound was not ordered until the next morning. The lawsuit claimed understaffing, rookie doctors-in-training and chain-of-command breakdowns

The hospital claimed that the patient suffered a known complication with kidney transplants and that earlier intervention would not have saved the kidney.

The man has since had another kidney transplant, which failed after 3 years, and is on the transplant list again.

The Columbia SC Medical Malpractice Lawyers at Louthian Law Firm have many years of experience in medical malpractice cases and we are committed to providing personal service and to obtaining fair compensation for all our clients. Call us at 1-866-410-5656 or fill out our confidential online case evaluation form.

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Full post as published by South Carolina Lawyer Blog on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).