Failure to Promptly Diagnose and Treat Cancer

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• $3.5 million for failure to take core breast biopsy resulting in death from metastatic breast cancer
• $2.4 million jury verdict for doctors' failure to diagnose and treat small bowel cancer
• $1.4 million settlement for failure to correctly read mammogram resulting in delayed diagnosis
• $1.4 million in a Federal Tort Claims Act case for failure to follow up on an inadequate Pap smear (North Carolina)
• $1.1 million in a Federal Tort Claims Act case for misreading a Pap smear (Texas)
• $1.1 million settlement for failure to conduct an adequate colonoscopy resulting in a delayed diagnosis of colon cancer
• Trial court's improper dismissal of medical malpractice claim against federal government reversed by Fourth Circuit ruling
• Trial court's improper dismissal of medical malpractice claim against federal government reversed by Fourth Circuit ruling
  In Pollard v. United States, 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 2605 (4th Cir. Feb. 2, 2006), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the trial court's decision to dismiss Sergeant Roosevelt Pollard's medical malpractice claim against the United States. On remand, our client was able to settle with the United States.

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