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Malpractice Failure to Diagnose & Treat Meningitis Ear Infection Brain Injury Cerebral Palsy |
BLUME
GETS $8 MILLION VERDICT |
| Attorney - John
Blume Winter 1989 Eight
million dollars was awarded to a young East Orange family after
successful representation last spring by John Blume. The verdict
was one of the largest ever recovered for personal injuries in New Jersey. The suit charged an East Orange doctor and his associate with "deviation from accepted medical standards" in a case involving a six-year-old boy who developed cerebral palsy after being medically mistreated for an ear infection during infancy. Mr. Blume
said that the parents consulted doctors when their six-month-old
son developed a common ear infection. The doctors failed to properly
advise the parents; as a result, the boy later developed meningitis
which led to brain damage and then to cerebral palsy. Mr. Blume said that the boy is unable to walk, talk or function on his own, but the jury award will allow the parents to provide all the care their son will need. The award includes $6 million for the child, $346,000 for the mother and $1,761,580 in prejudgment interest (accumulated from the time of filing suit to the time the verdict was rendered). |
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Malpractice Failure to Diagnose & Treat Meningitis Ear Infection Brain Injury Cerebral Palsy |
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