Representative Clients

Representative Medical Malpractice Awards

The Lum Firm has a long history of representing individuals who have been injured as a result of medical malpractice. We have helped numerous individuals in and around New Jersey and Essex County recover damages for their injuries. A few examples of our medical malpractice verdicts and settlements include:

$18 million trial verdict, reduced by Court to $5 million for a shoulder injury and Erb’s palsy suffered by child as a result of a failure to carry out a planned C-section.
$1.5 million dollar verdict for a blood transfusion AIDS case. Prior to trial, the case was partially settled against three treating physicians for $1.6 million.
$1 million dollar verdict for a misdiagnosis of a form of psoriasis.
$2.3 verdict for an infant left quadriplegic due to theophylline toxicity as a result of a pharmacy error.
$790,000 trial verdict for the death of a 34-year-old woman whose dissection of an aortic aneurysm was misdiagnosed in the emergency room as a muscle strain.
$4.6 million verdict on behalf of a brain-damaged woman against an anesthesiologist and nurse anesthetist.
$750,000 settlement for a woman whose breast cancer advanced as a result of a radiologist’s failure to properly read mammograms.
$6 million trial verdict for a premature baby rendered blind and quadriplegic following mismanagement of early labor and improper resuscitation of the newborn.
$370,000 verdict for dental malpractice involving negligently prepared and inserted implants.
$500,000 settlement for dental malpractice involving failure to prescribe antibiotics following dental cleaning resulting in development of bacterial endocarditis, and subsequent need for a heart transplant.
$525,000 verdict for negligent performance of an ear irrigation resulting in a rupture of the tympanic membrane and fracture; resulting in 30% percent loss of hearing in one ear.
$325,000 settlement for a delay in diagnosing colon cancer in a 57-year-old woman following a colonoscopy.
$1.3 million settlement for a carpenter who became disabled as a result of disc surgery performed on the wrong side of his spine.
$1.2 million settlement for misdiagnosis of epilepsy as psychosis by a neurologist and psychiatrist.
$750,000 settlement for wrongful birth, based on a doctor’s failure to test for Thalassemia during pregnancy.
$1.5 million trial verdict for a young woman whose chronic sinusitis progressed to a brain abscess as a result of failure to order diagnostic tests, including a CAT scan when antibiotics failed to cure her infection.
$1.4 million trial verdict for a woman who suffered cardiac arrest due to a postpartum pulmonary embolus misdiagnosed as hyperventilation.
$2.4 million settlement on behalf of a baby rendered a spastic quadriplegic as a result of an obstetrician’s failure to timely attend and properly manage the mother’s labor.
$800,000 settlement for a delay in diagnosing Wilson's disease, a liver ailment, in a 20 year old, resulting in cirrhosis of the liver.
$420,000 settlement for a woman whose superior vena cava was damaged during surgery.
$295,000 ($300,000 policy limits) for a young woman for failure to diagnose throat cancer that advanced to a lethal stage.
Multimillion-dollar settlement representing victim of the Seton Hall University fire.

If you have been injured as a result of medical malpractice and live anywhere in New Jersey or New York, contact the attorneys at The Lum Firm. Let us put our 135 years of experience work for you.

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