Indiana Medical Malpractice Lawyer Barry Rooth Wins $1.2 Million Jury Verdict for Family of Cancer Victim
I never get used to the joy of helping victims of medical evidence received the justice they deserve. This week, a jury in Elkhart County awarded my clients a verdict of $1.2 million in total in the death of a woman from cancer.
Nicole Manhart had a Pap smear performed in February of 1998 at the South Bend Medical Foundation.. The smear was wrongly interpreted by technicians at the hospital, as normal. In 1999, Manhart began to suffer severe bleeding. She initially attributed the bleeding to the use of birth-control pills. However, when the bleeding continued even after the birth control pills had been changed, she went in for a medical examination. An ultrasound revealed that she had a large tumor. By the time, Manhart had discovered the tumor, it was already in the third stage. By 2000, Manhart was dead.
This week, an Elkhart County Superior Court jury awarded Manhart's husband and her twin sons total damages of $1.2 million. Her husband Grant Manhart was awarded $200,000, while her twin sons were awarded $500,000 each. The trial centered on whether staff at South Bend failed to read the Pap smear results accurately.
However, an independent medical review board confirmed that the smear slide showed the presence of cancerous and abnormal cells.
The Indiana medical malpractice lawyers at Theodoros and Rooth represent injured victims of medical negligence, including surgical errors, misdiagnoses, failure to diagnose and emergency room errors, in medical malpractice litigation.
