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The June/July 2006 issue of Minnesota Law & Politics reported on “The Top Personal Injury Recoveries of the Year.” Seven of the top personal injury recoveries written about in the report were cases won by Robins, Kaplan Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P. attorneys including:
$4.5 Million in a case where the inappropriate use of Pitocin and failure to perform a Cesarean section in a timely manner led to the permanent disability and shortened life expectancy of a child.
$4 Million in a suit where a a 50-year-old woman suffered permanent neurological damage after doctors diagnosed her with a migraine when she was actually suffering from four brain aneurysms. She later suffered a brain hemorrhage.
$3.9 Million in a suit where a mother and her minor son were injured in a head-on car collision.
$2 Million in a case where a jail's policy for strip-searching detainees regardless of their reason for arrest violated the Fourth and 14th Amendments.
$1.7 Million in a suit against a surgeon and clinic where the plaintiff suffered multiple infections and complications resulting from a gastroplasty performed by a non-board-certified surgeon. She suffered an undiagnosed gastric leak, and after multiple surgeries she was left with permanent lung damage.
$1.5 Million recovery where a father was killed when his car was hit head-on by another car.
$1.2 Million in a case where a patient suffered permanent neurological damage form a ruptured aneurysm. She had sought treatment for severe headaches, but doctors missed the aneurysm on a CT scan.
The June/July 2005 issue of Minnesota Law & Politics reported on “The Top Personal Injury Recoveries of the Year.” Eight of the top personal injury recoveries written about in the report were cases won by Robins, Kaplan Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P. attorneys including:
$9.6 Million recovery for a young woman who suffered severe brain injury after being reared-ended by another vehicle.
$7 Million in a suit where a policy of the St. Croix County Jail involving strip searches for inmates was found to violate the 4th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution
$3.3 Million in a suit against a doctor and hospital where a child was born with cerebral palsy after suffering from asphyxia during birth.
$3.16 Million in a case where an infant suffered hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy during birth.
$2.5 Million in a case where a patient had an unnecessary double mastectomy after a mix-up of lab results between two patients.
$2,008,863 recovery for an electrocuted construction worker who was severely burned when the crane he was working on hit a power line.
$1.7 Million in a case against a pediatrician for failure to give certain genetic testing when it was ordered and where the infant was born with a severe genetic disorder called Fragile X.
$1.3 Million recovery in a case, where during bypass surgery, doctor placed a heart valve in the wrong position, resulting in the death of the patient.
Minnesota Law & Politics reported in the June/July 2004, The Top Recoveries of the Year including ten personal injury cases handled by Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, L.L.P.:
$25 Million in an airplane crash case which killed Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila and four other passengers on the plane.
$5.4 Million in a case where doctor failed to monitor and treat a known hearth condition, resulting in brain damage for a 44-year-old patient.
$3.080,500 in a case where a clinic failed to fill out important documents regarding the plaintiff's obstetrical history, including a previous case where her child's blood was incompatible with her own. The condition is called hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). Days later, the plaintiff delivered another child, who was hospitalized for the same condition, causing extensive brain damage.
$2.5 Million jury verdict in a wrongful death case where a driver and passenger were killed when an oncoming car crossed into the plaintiff's lane.
$2.35 Million suit against a hospital that gave patient conscious sedation during an out patient procedure and then allowed him to drive home. The patient fell asleep on the drive home and rolled his car.
$2.1 Million in an Illinois case where the hospital staff failed to promptly give patient antibiotics for kidney infection. The patient later died.
$1.7 Million in a case were a 44-year-old man died after hospital staff failed to diagnose and treat a massive pulmonary embolism.
$1.7 Million where a doctor failed to treat an infant with Jaundice, resulting in a number of medical conditions, including cerebral palsy, quadriplegia and more.
$1.475 Million where a 49-year-old father of two died after his doctor failed to diagnose and treat coronary artery disease and acute coronary syndrome.
$1.45 Million in a case wither the doctor negligently handled the delivery of an infant resulting in cerebral palsy and significant developmental delays.
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