#9 - $3,362,437, including pre-judgment interest
Wood, Administrator v. Carleo
Type of Case: Wrongful death, Medical malpractice
Court: Norfolk Circuit Court
Attorneys: Lewis T. Stoneburner and Wallace B. Wason Jr., Richmond
Summary: Attorneys for 9-year-old Tiffany Danielle Wood alleged that an emergency room doctor failed to perform the tests to diagnose bleeding from an arterio-venous malformation after Tiffany suffered a seizure with convulsions and loss of consciousness in a basketball game.
Twelve days after the physician diagnosed the incident as a simple faint, Tiffany suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died three days later. The jury awarded $2 million plus interest from the date of Tiffany’s death, which was reduced to the $1.5 million cap on medical malpractice awards that applied at the time.
The case was settled under confidential terms while on appeal.
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