$500,000 Settlement for Failure to Diagnose Lung Cancer Case

• Date: Spring 2004
• FIRM
• Settlement: $500,000
• Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice, Failure to Diagnose, Lung Cancer

The firm obtained a $500,000 settlement from the primary care physician who misread three chest x-rays of a 59-year-old man taken between January 1999 and October 2000, resulting in a 22-month delay in the diagnosis of lung cancer, thus allowing his Stage IA lung cancer to progress to Stage IIIA at diagnosis.