Multi-Million Dollar Verdicts: Time for a Second Opinion

Few health-care providers confronting the reality of trial proceedings in cases involving serious injury or death fail to recognize the possibility of a multi-million dollar verdict being returned in favor of the plaintiff. In 2003, 15 of the top 100 verdicts reported nationwide by Verdictsearch resulted from medical malpractice actions, with the range falling between an award of approximately $19,465,000 to an incredible $112 million in a case involving the alleged failure to diagnose an aneurysm, which led to the patient's quadriplegia and significant brain damage.

20 minute read April 23, 2004 at 11:15 AM
By
Michael D. Brophy
Multi-Million Dollar Verdicts: Time for a Second Opinion

Few health-care providers confronting the reality of trial proceedings in cases involving serious injury or death fail to recognize the possibility of a multi-million dollar verdict being returned in favor of the plaintiff.

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