Medical Malpractice Yields Large Settlements
Medical malpractice has yielded some large settlements over the past few years. Attorneys are getting better and better at getting huge settlements for their clients. For starters, the largest malpractice settlement for lasik surgery is $2.1 million. The doctor had sixteen lawsuits pending and continued to do surgery, and then made a 47-year-old man legally blind. Another large settlement happened when an undetected infection in a woman lead to her death. That resulted in $9.5 million in compensation.
There are hundreds of settlements each year between $1 million and $10 million a year. Each year there are quite a few verdicts over the $10 million mark as well. One firm had a $14.5 million settlement, a $40 million settlement, and a $30 million settlement in a span of 5 years. The $40 million settlement was the largest I could find. During a delivery, a doctor had failed to do a certain procedure to the baby and it resulted in extreme brain damage.
