Substantial Settlement
A commercial painter had accidentally injected his index finger with turpentine.
Although the injury looked like a mere pinprick into the pad of his finger, he immediately drove himself to a local Philadelphia Emergency Room.
The hospital staff did an x-ray.
Not recognizing that the injury needed to be drained within three hours of occurance, they did nothing else for the painter for eight hours.
So, he helped himself.
He demanded to be transferred to a hospital that would treat him.
They transferred him to a Center City hospital where the staff there immediately recognized that this was in fact an emergency.
However, they couldn’t turn back time.
Too many hours had passed since the injury, and the turpentine had caused damage to the tissues in his hand and arm.
He now required amputation for his index finger and four additional surgeries to flush out the poison from his hand, forearm, and upper arm.
That limb would never feel the same.
He came to us seeking just compensation for the hospital’s failure to diagnose and treat in a timely manner.
We took the case to court and proved the first hospital’s negligence.
The painter should have been diagnosed and treated hours before his finger, and the rest of his arm, ever became at risk.
They settled at the close of the evidence for a confidential but substantial amount.
We tried the case and settled it at the close of the evidence for a confidential but substantial amount.
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