Walkup attorneys negotiated a settlement on behalf of a man who suffered debilitating back injury because of Kaiser’s failure to diagnose and treat a spinal infection that developed after a decompressive lumbar laminectomy.
The patient then continued on for several more months while taking prescription pain medications to mask the pain. Finally, after several months he returned to Kaiser and was diagnosed with a staph aureus infection of the spine. Walkup’s team of Kaiser injury specialists argued the infection was present following the surgery, and that the permanent damage to the man’s spine was a direct result of Kaiser’s negligence.
