Coppedge & Evans P.C.: Practice

ATTORNEY-ACCOUNTANT

For Plaintiff:

Failure to appeal, failure to keep client informed, failure to bring case on a sound legal basis.

For Plaintiff:

Failure of Class Action attorney to keep a defined Class of plaintiffs/farmers informed as to consequences and requirements of Class Certification Orders.

For Defendant:

Plaintiff alleged that attorney and accountant hired in an underlying case failed to present commercial damages based upon sound legal theory, resulting in summary judgment against his client. Failure to establish causal relationship.

ENGINEERING

Negligent design of drainage facilities, negligent design of detention ponds in residential and commercial developments.
Negligent design of roadways, negligent placement of guardrails, negligent timing of pedestrian walk/don't walk signals, negligent placement of traffic signals, negligent design and placement of left turn lanes, violations of Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
Negligent design of highway bridge so as to impede water flow, causing increased upstream flooding by approximately 7 feet in a 25 year rainfall event, consequential flooding of home, barns, fields, chicken houses, as well as downstream flooding as water sought to reach its original stream bed after circumventing the bridge obstruction.
Negligent design of products. See Products Liability Section.

MEDICAL, HOSPITAL, DENTAL LIABILITY - Specialty, party represented, subject.

Anesthesiology - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Esophageal intubation, coma, death.
Anesthesiology - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Traumatic eye injury. Induction agent selection, increased inter-ocular pressure, rupture of eye.
Anesthesiology - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Padding and positioning of face and eye sockets, inattention during prolonged (8+ hours) low back surgery with patient in kneeling position and diminished blood pressure, bilateral blindness.
Anesthesiology - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Repeated use of INNOVAR during extremity surgery under tourniquet on unintubated patient, resulting in death.
Cardiology, Surgery - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Improper technique, physical attachment of a Swan-Ganz Catheter to the heart muscle.
Cardiology - Plaintiff
Failure to diagnose and treat myocarditis resulting in death.
Emergency Room - Plaintiff
Diagnostic issues. Ruptured appendix/peritonitis.
Emergency Room, General Physician - Defendant
Diagnostic issues. Recognition of mucus plug, establishment of airway in 6 year old child suffering from croup, resulting in cortical blindness.
Gastroenterology - Plaintiff
Failure to properly monitor, examine and treat colonoscopy conscious sedation post-treatment resulting in fall/fractures.
General Surgery - Plaintiff - Defendant (Two Cases)
Treatment issues. Technique and post-surgical follow-up in colorectal surgery.
General Surgery - Plaintiff
Diagnostic and treatment issues Recognition of stomach perforation during lap band surgery, resulting in death.
General Surgery - Plaintiff
Failure to recognize and treat post-surgical infection of hernia repair, removal of mesh resulting in significant long-term hospitalization and death.
General Practice, Internal Medicine - Plaintiff
Failure to diagnose and treat pulmonary embolism, misdiagnosis of pneumonia resulting in death.
General Practice, Pediatrics - Defendant
Diagnostic issues. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, resulting in death of a child.
General Practice, Pediatrics - Plaintiff
Diagnostic and treatment issues. Stevens Johnson Syndrome, error in differential diagnosis, Kawasaki's disease or RMSF, prescriptions for barbiturate drugs, Dilantin, Alurate, Alupent, resulting in death of a child.
General Practice - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Related to workers' compensation claim. Industrial medicine physician prescribed steroids for symptomatic relief of muscular injuries resulting in iatrogenic diabetes, blood sugar monitoring, coma, blindness.
General Practice - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Prescription of steroids for the symptomatic relief of urtercaria without diagnosing cause (allergies to nickel in costume jewelry), sudden withdrawal of steroids resulting in severe emotional distress.
Gynecology, Surgery, Hospital Liability, Product Defect - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Laparoscope and bovie short circuit, burned bowel with resulting peritonitis during laproscopic tubal ligation.
Gynecology, Surgery - Plaintiff and Defendant
Treatment issues. Fulgeration of endometriosis, recurrence of endometriosis.
Gynecology, Surgery - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Post-surgical follow up of complete hysterectomy and salpingo oophorectomy, pain, repeat surgery, vaginal foreshortening.
Gynecology, Surgery - Plaintiff-Defendant (Two Cases)
Treatment issues. Hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo oophorectomy ovarian remnant syndrome, repeat surgery.
Gynecology and Urology, Surgery - Plaintiff
Treatment and technique issues. Attachment of Marshall-Marchetti sling, increased incontinence.
Hospital Liability - Defendant
Treatment issues. Failure to monitor agitated patient resulting in patient suicide.
Hospital Liability - Plaintiff
Diagnostic issues. Nurse recognition of and reporting deteriorating neurological status to the neurosurgeon, Glasgow Coma Scale issues resulting in death.
Hospital Liability - Plaintiff
Diagnostic issues. (1) Nurse, (2) ER Physician, (3) radiologist, (4) otolaryngologist, (5) neurosurgeon. Recognition and treatment of facial and sinus fractures resulting in meningitis and death.
Hospital Liability - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Incorrect administration of IM medication by nurse. Granulation, and abscess. Surgical debridement and removal of a significant portion of buttocks of young woman, scarring.
Hospital Liability - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Administration of TPN by nurse into the bloodstream. Kidney damage. Partial recovery.
Hospital Liability - Plaintiff
Wrongful discharge of embolic stroke patient without completion of doctor's diagnostic orders.
Hospital Liability (for Defendant Radiologist only), General Surgical and Circulating Nurse - Other Professional.
Treatment issues. Leaving in surgical sponge in patient's abdomen, patient recovered (two cases).
Hospital Liability - Internal Medicine (for Defendant Physician Only)
Diagnostic and referral issues. Diagnosis or transfer patient with spinal bleeding, compression fracture, bilateral lower limb paralysis, death.
Neurology - Plaintiff
Diagnostic issues. Misdiagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, appropriate testing to rule out embolic source of stroke symptoms, myxoma.
Neurology - Plaintiff
Improper place of vertebral appliances.
Neurosurgeon - Defendant
Treatment issues. Brain injury resulting in paralysis.
Obstetrical - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Delivery of child, shoulder dystocia, excessive force, Erb's Palsy.
Obstetrical - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Delivery of child, shoulder dystocia, macrosomia, Cerebral Palsy.
Obstetrical - Defendant
Diagnostic and treatment issues. Delivery of child, failure to properly interpret non-reassuring fetal heart tones, Cerebral Palsy.
Obstetrical - Plaintiff
Diagnostic and treatment issues. Delivery of child, failure to timely respond to non-reassuring fetal heart monitor and perform a C-section, Cerebral Palsy, falsification of records, fraud.
Orthopaedics, Surgical - Defendant
Diagnostic and treatment issues. Application of post-surgical cast, compartment syndrome, severe upper extremity injury, loss of use.
Orthopaedics, Surgical - Defendant
Diagnostic and treatment issues. Recognition and treatment of Jeff Chandler Accident, resulting in death.
Orthopaedics, Surgical - Plaintiff
Improper placement of shoulder prosthesis.
Pathology - Plaintiff
Diagnostic issues. Misdiagnosis of cervical cancer resulting in unnecessary surgery.
Podiatrists - Plaintiff (Two Cases)
Diagnostic and treatment issues. Perisurgical prophylactic administration of antibiotics. Failure to recognize post-surgical infection. Failure to treat a post- surgical infection with appropriately selected antibiotics in a therapeutic dose by an appropriate route. Disuse osteoporosis/osteomyelitis, severe lower extremity injury, loss of use.
Radiology, Hospital Liability, Pediatrics - Defendant Radiologist
Treatment issues. Barium enema procedure for intussusception reduction in 4 year old patient, failure of proper code response to seizure, resulting in death.
Radiology - Defendant
Alleged misdiagnosis of pineal malignancy through MRI studies resulting in unnecessary radiation treatments.
Radiology - Defendant
Diagnostic and treatment issues. Recognition of breast cancer on mammogram (I.L.C.), resulting in death.
Radiology - Defendant
Alleged failure to properly interpret ultrasound showing testicular tortion.
Radiology - Defendant
Diagnostic issues. Facial fracture.
Radiology, Hospital Liability - Defendant Radiologist
Administrative issues. Misreporting of mammograms. Administrative mix-up of a positive mammogram and a negative mammogram by hospital staff resulting in unnecessary surgery for one patient, and death to the other.
Radiology - Plaintiff (Same Case: See Also ER/Otolaryngology/Neurosurgery/Hospital Liability)
Diagnostic issues. Facial fracture and contracoup sinus fracture, meningitis resulting in death.
Surgical, Gastroenterology - Defendant
Diagnostic and treatment issues. Site description of location of bowel lesion by gastroenterologist. Surgical removal of healthy bowel. Bowel insufficiency.
Surgical, Urology - Plaintiff
Diagnostic and surgical issues. Removal of healthy kidney, leaving diseased kidney. Failure to label I VP film. Reverse presentation on view box.
Urgent Care, Triage, General Care Hospital Admission, Internal Medicine - Plaintiff
Diagnostic issues. Pneumonia vs. pulmonary embolism, resulting in death.
Dental - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Mistaken extraction of permanent tooth in a child.
Dental - Plaintiff
Diagnostic, treatment and referral issues. Recognition and timely treatment of infection.
Dental - Plaintiff
Treatment issues. Severe nerve damage during implant procedure.
Physical Therapy - Plaintiff
Aggressive physical therapy resulting in injury.

NURSING HOME CLAIMS

Patient drowned in bath tub unsupervised.
Patient froze to death after being transferred from one ward of a nursing home to another. Proper patient census paperwork did not follow the patient. Patient exited an unalarmed door into sub-freezing night temperatures and was not noted to be absent.
Patient with Huntington's Chorea was not supervised. Spasm caused patient to slide partially out of bed and hang by her neck, waist, and ankle, on the side of the bed until she developed rhabdomyolysis causing kidney failure from which she died.
Immobile post-surgical patient who was burned by placing his bed to close to a radiator, followed by infection resulting in death.
Multiple plaintiffs. Abuse and neglect resulting in bedsores, infection and pain, death, failure to properly supervise patients, resulting in falling injuries and fractures. Dropping patients during transport resulting in fractures.

Mentally ill orderly deliberately set fire to patient resulting in death, failure to investigate employee background. Plaintiff failed to recover on agency theory, and did not allege negligent hiring issues.