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Posted: Fri 15:42, 26 Jul 2013 Post subject: Prostate Cancer Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Result |
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surgery. The law firm that handled this case reported that the claim settled in the amout of $550,000 The man was 60 years old at the time of the settlement. The settlement agreement left the chance of a wrongful death case should the patient not survive beyond the applicable statute of limitations.As this lawsuit illustrates,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the full degree of the harm to the patient was not known until the results of the surgery were examined and showed that the cancer had,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in fact, already begun spreading beyond the prostate. Furthermore it was not until the patient�s PSA levels started to go up post-operatively that the true extent of the harm was know. At that point the lawyer was able to fully evaluate the patient�s claim. An important teaching point from this case is how the law firm made sure that the man's wife did not lose the right to pursue a wrongful death claim if her husband died of the cancer within the time frame allowed by the Statute of Limitations Obviously if there will later be a wrongful death case that
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