________ VERDICT Medical malpractice - Alleged negligent treatment for hypertension - Failure to monitor blood pressure medication - Liver failure - Wrongful death.

________ VERDICT Medical malpractice - Alleged negligent treatment for hypertension - Failure to monitor blood pressure medication - Liver failure - Wrongful death.

$________ RECOVERY - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - FAILURE TO REFER TO LIVER SPECIALIST DESPITE FIVE YEARS OF ELEVATED LIVER ENZYMES FIRST DETECTED AFTER TRAUMA SUSTAINED WHEN ________ WAS 14 YEARS OF AGE - FAILURE TO TIMELY DIAGNOSE WILSON'S DISEASE INVOLVING AN INABILITY TO METABOLIZE COPPER - CIRRHOSIS SUFFERED BY 60% OF LIVER - FORMATION OF ESOPHAGEAL VARICES THAT POSE THE RISK OF FATAL RUPTURE OF VEINS - RISK FOR FUTURE LIVER TRANSPLANT.

$________ RECOVERY - Medical Malpractice - Internal Medicine Malpractice - Allegation that internists negligently delayed referral to hepatology specialist - ________ delayed diagnosis of Wilson's disease allegedly resulted in liver failure, cirrhosis of 40% of the liver and esophageal varices.

$________ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - WRONGFUL DEATH - GASTROINTESTINAL FELLOW/RESIDENT PERMITTED TO ATTEMPT LIVER BIOPSY ON LIVER TRANSPLANT PATIENT WHO HAD DEVELOPED PROBLEMS POST-TRANSPLANT - HOSPITAL POLICY PROHIBITED RESIDENTS FROM PERFORMING LIVER BIOPSY PROCEDURE ON LIVER TRANSPLANT PATIENTS - BREACH OF STANDARD OF CARE IN FAILING TO RE-PERTUSS VALVE PRIOR TO ATTEMPTING SECOND INSERTION FOR BIOPSY AFTER INITIAL FAILED ATTEMPT.

$________ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - WRONGFUL DEATH - GASTROINTESTINAL FELLOW/RESIDENT PERMITTED TO ATTEMPT LIVER BIOPSY ON LIVER TRANSPLANT PATIENT WHO HAD DEVELOPED PROBLEMS POST-TRANSPLANT - HOSPITAL POLICY PROHIBITED RESIDENTS FROM PERFORMING LIVER BIOPSY PROCEDURE ON LIVER TRANSPLANT PATIENTS - BREACH OF STANDARD OF CARE IN FAILING TO RE-PERCUSS VALVE PRIOR TO ATTEMPTING SECOND INSERTION FOR BIOPSY AFTER INITIAL FAILED ATTEMPT.

$________ VERDICT - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - WRONGFUL DEATH - GASTROINTESTINAL FELLOW/RESIDENT PERMITTED TO ATTEMPT LIVER BIOPSY ON LIVER TRANSPLANT PATIENT WHO HAD DEVELOPED PROBLEMS POST-TRANSPLANT - HOSPITAL POLICY PROHIBITED RESIDENTS FROM PERFORMING LIVER BIOPSY PROCEDURE ON LIVER TRANSPLANT PATIENTS - BREACH OF STANDARD OF CARE IN FAILING TO RE-PERTUSS VALVE PRIOR TO ATTEMPTING SECOND INSERTION FOR BIOPSY, AFTER INITIAL FAILED ATTEMPT.

________ VERDICT ________ allegedly subjected to unwarranted diagnostic testing - Alleged lack of informed consent - Pancreatitis - Ten day hospitalization.

$________ VERDICT INCLUDING $________ PUNITIVE AWARD - PRODUCTS LIABILITY - FAILURE TO WARN - PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY ALLEGEDLY FAILS TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE WARNINGS REGARDING THE RISK OF LIVER TOXICITY ASSOCIATED WITH ITS PRODUCT TYLENOL - LIVER FAILURE - DAMAGE TO KIDNEYS CAUSED BY ANTI-REJECTION DRUG TAKEN FOLLOWING LIVER TRANSPLANT - FUTURE LOSS OF KIDNEYS ANTICIPATED.