Personal Injury Law

$1.25M Awarded In Wrongful Death Suit

By Kirk Bernard, Esq.

A jury in Tennessee awarded the family of a young mother more than $1 million in a wrongful death lawsuit.

Ginger Williams, 34 and suffering from end-stage renal disease, died one day after doctors released her from the emergency room at Maury Regional Hospital. According to her mother, doctors and the hospital neglected to give her daughter a blood test that would have detected an elevated, deadly potassium level. The jury ruled that Williams died after a break-down in communication kept her from getting proper medical care.

Doris Howell and her grandson were awarded $1.25 million.

Attorneys for the prosecution worked for three years to prove two doctors, two nurses and the hospital didn't give the blood test to detect her elevated potassium level.

Full post as published by Seattle Injury Blog on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).