Heart Surgeon/Pediatric Hospital
Location: Wilmington, DE; Philadelphia, PA
Number of Claimants: 15 deaths and 3 severely neurologically impaired children
Facts: WWHGD represents a world renowned pediatric heart surgeon and children’s hospital in numerous suits alleging improper preparation of infants for open heart surgery for complex congenital heart defects.
Discovery: Review and organization of extensive medical records for Plaintiffs and hundreds of other children similarly operated upon. Due to independent institutional claims, developed database of Defendant hospital’s documents and emails.
Case results: Two severely neurologically impaired cases settled favorably during trial (third case quickly settled). Two death cases tried with defense verdicts in each (one case reversed on appeal for judicial “misconduct”). Once case recently resulted in Plaintiff’s verdict substantially less than pretrial demand. Summary judgment granted in seven individual death cases (3 due to standard of limitations; 4 due to disqualification of different Plaintiffs’ experts). Other cases are scheduled for trial.