Marijo C. Adimey

• $11.5 million settlement during trial in New York County for a 39 year old woman who developed a thiamine deficiency following bariatric surgery. The thiamine deficiency went undiagnosed during a hospitalization for almost two weeks, resulting in the development of Wernicke’s Encephalopathy and permanent brain damage.
• $1.65 million settlement during trial in Staten Island for a 45 year old man whose influenza went undiagnosed and untreated, resulting in severe respiratory distress, multi-system organ failure, joint contractures and extensive Surgery.
• $750,000 jury verdict in a medical malpractice action in NY County involving an arterial injury during spinal surgery, resulting in massive hemorrhaging, placement of stent, infection and prolonged pain and suffering.
• $650,000 jury verdict in Kings County involving a fractured hip sustained when a patient who required one on one supervision was left unattended and fell from her hospital bed. The plaintiff underwent surgical repair of the hip, revision surgery, impairments of daily living and prolonged pain and suffering.
• $7.5 million settlement on behalf of an infant who suffered brain damage during delivery at a hospital in Long Island.
• $3.35 million settlement on behalf of an Upstate man whose leg had to be amputated above the knee after a catheter used to administer medications was placed into his artery instead of his vein and not diagnosed for over 18 hours, causing the effected leg to be ischemic.
• $2.5 million unanimous verdict for a 57 year old woman who suffered an intestinal perforation of the duodenum during a diagnostic EGD, also known as an upper endoscopy. As a result of the doctor negligence, the woman suffered excruciating pain and had to be brought back to the hospital. After CT scans suggested sepsis, surgeons had to perform life-saving surgery of her abdomen. See more about this case here
• $2.5 million settlement for a young woman who lost her husband when his treating physicians failed to advise him of an abnormal finding observed on a CT scan for almost 10 months, leading to an advanced stage illness and causing him untimely death.
• $2.3 million settlement on behalf of a 53 year old woman whose breast cancer went undiagnosed by radiologists who performed her mammograms. The delay of a year and a half resulted in metastasis and a diminished life expectancy.
• $1,270,000 unanimous jury verdict in Kings County for a 64 year old woman whose spleen was torn from her colon during a routine, screening colonoscopy. As a result of the excessive blood loss from the splenic rupture, she went into hemorrhagic shock and required an exploratory laparotomy to have her entire spleen removed. Read more about this case here
• $1.2 million settlement in New York County for a 34 year old man whose synovial sarcoma went undiagnosed for more than two years, despite radiologicial studies indicating a cancer in the differential workup and the need for further workup. As a result of the delay in diagnosis, the cancer spread to the young man's lungs and rendered his disease incurable.
• $750,000 settlement for an elderly man who sustained a perforated intestine during a Fleet Enema performed in an ER, where the man presented with complaints of constipation. As a result of the malpractice, the gentleman is left with a permanent colostomy.
• $750,000 settlement for a worker whose leg was crushed in between two dollies when a co-worker was negligently operating a fork-lift.
• $675,000 Settlement in Richmond County on behalf of the adult children of a 51 year old man after a negligently performed chest tube insertion, resulting in bronchopneumonia and anoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, and ultimately death.
• $500,000 settlement for a woman who sustained a permanent foot drop after a resident, under the supervision and control of an attending surgeon, misplaced three (3) pedicle screws during a laminectomy procedure.
• $300,000 Arbitration Award for a woman who sustained a Right Rotator Cuff Tear during in a MV accident in which she was the passenger. She required surgical intervention and extensive physical therapy following the accident, but was still left with limited mobility and range of motion.

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