ClickCease Emergency Room Errors Archives | Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger

Stroke Victim Misdiagnosed

Walkup partner Doris Cheng, medical negligence counsel Christian Jagusch, M.D., J.D., and associate Ashcon Minoiefar, combined to obtain a Sacramento jury verdict in the total amount of $15,308,604 after a three-week trial on behalf of a 23-year-old college student. The client became unresponsive at home and was taken by ambulance to UC Davis Medical Center….

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Failure to Diagnose Skull Fracture Causing Wrongful Death

Our medical malpractice wrongful death trial lawyers prevailed in a case brought on behalf of the parents of a 29-year-old man who died of an undiagnosed head injury. The young man presented to the defendant emergency room physician with a head laceration after being struck with a surfboard. Ignoring the possibility of a head injury,…

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Medical Negligence

In Rural Patient vs. Emergency Group (Sonoma Co. Sup. Ct.), Valerie Rose successfully concluded a wrongful death case on behalf of the surviving husband and two children of a 46-year-old Sonoma County woman who died from a systemic infection secondary to an infected IUD. The decedent became ill shortly before Christmas 2014. Three days later,…

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