Nash & Associates: Case Under Investigation
Wrongful Death – failure to properly and timely treat an asthmatic patient
Case Facts: Our client, the mother of a young man, who was a long-suffering asthma patient, has asked us to investigate the events, which she believes, led to the untimely and tragic death of her son.
When this young man was seen in the emergency room of a local area hospital, he provided a clear history of long-standing asthma. It presently appears that various tests and medications were ordered but were never administered. He was discharged within hours of his arrival in the emergency room.
He retuned to his home, where within a short period of time, he became short of breath, which progressed to respiratory distress and then arrest. He collapsed in front of his family. Despite the heroic efforts of the family to resuscitate him and emergently transport him to the hospital’s emergency room, he was unable to be successfully resuscitated; he was pronounced dead after these efforts failed.
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Again, the above ‘cases under investigation’ are just that – under investigation. At Nash & Associates, we recognize that bad results can occur even when the medical care is totally proper. We believe it is our ethical duty to our clients to totally and properly investigate these matters to identify those cases in which tragic outcomes are the result of negligence. While we attempt to initially screen incoming matters to determine which may have merit, the final determination to proceed to a lawsuit is not made unless and until we are satisfied, through proper investigation and qualified expert consultation. that a valid malpractice case exists. Of course, the ultimate determination of the validity of a case lies with the jurors who must unanimously agree that our assessment was correct.
We provide the above information to give you, the visitors to our sight, information as to a sampling of the nature of our practice and insight into the expertise we possess in this area of the law. We do not simply market, collect cases and refer them to other lawyers, who specialize in this area of the law. We are the ones who handle these matters with our many years of highly successful experience in the evaluation, settlement and, when necessary, litigation of medical malpractice and catastrophic injury cases.
