Significant Recovery Secured for Family in Hospital Negligence Case Involving Missed Cardiac Diagnosis

On the day before they were scheduled to pick a jury for trial, Stephen Raynes and Joe Traub settled claims by the husband and children of a woman who died of a heart attack the day after she had visited a hospital complaining of chest pain. The hospital discharged her quickly without proper testing for heart disease. The hospital alleged that its doctors did everything right because she did not complain of chest pain, but rather stomach pain, when they examined her. The hospital also alleged that because her autopsy found no embolus to have caused her infarction, any intervention on the day she visited the hospital would have been futile. Raynes & Lawn’s presentation hinged on the hospital’s own medical records, which recorded complaints of chest pain during intake. Plaintiffs’ experts in Emergency Medicine and Cardiology were poised to testify of the significance of the clients’ wife and mother’s risk factors and symptoms which required serial cardiac monitoring which would have led to timely diagnosis and treatment which would have prevented her death. The significant recovery for the family recognizes the strength of the case presentation and the profound loss to the family.