Arizona Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice
and Wrongful Death Lawyer
Here are a few representative cases in which attorney Richard Remender has been involved in recent years.
- A plaintiff mother of five children sought a legal abortion from a Phoenix physician. She and her husband agreed that they could not afford another child. The doctor determined she was 13 weeks pregnant and sought to induce an abortion. In fact, he was wrong and she was 32 weeks pregnant. She gave birth to a living child who was deformed by the botched abortion. That claim settled for $2.2 million.
- A woman passenger on a motorcycle was badly injured when another motorist pulled in front of the motorcycle. She suffered a drop foot and other injuries. That claim settled for the policy limits of $300,000.
- A young man working on a framing crew stepped on a crossbeam that was improperly affixed to another. It gave way, causing a 20-foot fall headfirst to the slab below. Fortunately, he made a complete recovery from his injuries. This case is unique in that usually Workman's Compensation laws prevent a worker from suing his employer for injuries on the jobsite caused by the negligence of a co-employee. That claim settled for $725,000.
- In 2003 an Arizona man had a routine diskectomy on a Friday. The procedure is routinely done by a surgeon's penetrating the front of the neck to implant either a piece of the patient's hip bone-or in the alternative, a piece of plastic is inserted between the vertebrae to relieve pain in the neck. By Sunday, he was having trouble breathing, as if there were some physical obstruction in the airway. He was taken to the local emergency room where he was intubated by a technician. The supervising physician negligently allowed the tech to collapse the man's lung, after which he passed away. That claim settled for $740,000.
- In 2004, a client in Nebraska went to the hospital after suffering a stroke. He was treated, put on blood thinners and sent home. Two weeks later he suffered a recurrence and returned to the same hospital. It was decided to do a spinal tap to determine the existence of spinal meningitis. The doctors were negligent in failing to recall that he had been put on blood thinners just two weeks before. As a result, he suffered a foot-long blood clot and was permanently paralyzed and confined to a wheel chair. That case settled in Nebraska for $1.64 million. The claim was worth much more, but the State of Nebraska has a cap on damages of $1.7 million.
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360 Vista Grande Court
Sedona, AZ 86336
Phone: 928-282-9595
Fax: 928-203-1017
Email: mrr@esodona.net