If Any of This Sounds Like Your Family, Keep Reading
- Your loved one went to the ER with clear symptoms and was sent home without real treatment.
- The hospital is telling you everyone followed protocol.
- Sepsis and MRSA cases are routinely dismissed as "bad luck."
- You are facing a hospital-sized defense team and you do not know where to start.
Here is the case we built for a family in exactly this position.
The Challenge
The symptoms were obvious. Fever. Elevated white count. Pain. The ER team had everything it needed. It sent our client home anyway. By the time the infection was taken seriously, the damage was permanent. The defense's first move was the usual one: everyone followed protocol, nobody did anything wrong, and the outcome was simply unfortunate. The record told a different story.
Our Strategy
- Pulled every version of the chart — including the audit trail — so we could see what was actually documented in real time and what was backfilled later.
- Retained an infectious-disease specialist to testify to the standard of care for recognizing and treating a presenting infection.
- Built the damages case around permanent injury: life-care plan, lost earning capacity, and the day-to-day reality of what was lost.
- Made clear, early, that this case was going to a jury if the number did not move.
The Outcome
An $8 million settlement, funding ongoing medical treatment, in-home support, and the long road ahead. The hospital never publicly admitted what went wrong. The chart did that for them.
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They sent us home twice. CM LAW made sure someone finally had to answer for it.
Does Your Case Sound Similar?
- You or a loved one suffered a serious, life-altering injury
- Someone else's negligence, a defective product, or medical error was involved
- Insurance is lowballing you or denying the claim entirely
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Common Questions About Cases Like This
What counts as a "failure to diagnose" in Pennsylvania?
A failure-to-diagnose claim is a case where a reasonably competent provider, faced with the same presenting symptoms, would have ordered the right test, reached the right diagnosis, and started the right treatment in time. The standard is not perfection. The standard is what a competent provider would have done.
Can we still bring a case if the ER says "discharge was appropriate"?
Often yes. ERs document defensively. The real question is what the vitals, labs, and presenting complaints looked like at the time of discharge — and whether a competent provider would have admitted, retested, or treated. That is a medicine question, and we answer it with a specialist.
How long do infection-based malpractice cases usually take?
Typically 18 months to 3 years, depending on how hard the defense fights and how quickly the hospital produces records. We do not let these cases sit. Evidence fades, witnesses move, and the client's financial pressure is real.
