Client Victories

Partial list of cases Attorney Flemming has tried to verdict or settled for clients:

• Playground equipment settlement: $950,000
• Negligent administration of anesthesia and monitoring of patient during lumbar disk neurosurgery / verdict:  $3,750,000
• Negligent performance of forceps delivery with median episiotomy: verdict and judgment:  $950,000
• Negligence in processing of prostate biopsy specimen:  $950,000
• Negligent failure to institute anticoagulation therapy to prevent stroke:  $850,000
• Negligent post-orthopedic surgery treatment – failure to diagnose osteomyelitis:  $800,000
• Negligent sphenoid sinus surgery with resulting brain injury:  $750,000
• Negligent performance of sphyncterplasty / wrongful death:  $700,000
• Negligent failure to diagnose lung cancer:  $650,000
• Negligent failure to diagnose thyroid cancer:  $650,000
• Negligent concrete wall bracing / construction site:  $650,000
• Negligent orthopedic surgery – repair of femur fracture:  verdict – $350,000
• Motor vehicle / garbage truck accident / aggravation of pre-existing brain injury:  $1,200,000

Attorney Flemming has also obtained substantial settlements for clients in cases involving the following:

• Obstetrics – wrongful death of newborn
• Failure to diagnose impending heart attack
• Wrongful death due to a car/truck/underride accident
• Obstetrical negligence – failure to perform cervical cerclage
• Anesthesia obstetrical negligence – failure to treat post-epidural seizures
• Medical negligence – morphine overdose
• Product Liability – wheel / tire incompatibility
• Vertical milling machine / inadequate guard / hand injury
• Commercial hot chocolate machine / burns
• Psychiatric drug malpractice
• Negligent failure to prevent stroke post-chiropractic manipulation injury
• Negligent failure to detect impending pulmonary emboli
• Defective black light bulb / eye injury
• Negligent treatment – ankle injury / diabetic
• Negligent cataract surgery
• Failure to diagnose breast cancer
• Ovarian cancer misdiagnosis
• Multiple motor vehicle tort accidents
• Negligent laparoscopy with iliac nerve damage
• Negligent police action / Massachusetts Tort Claims Act
• Negligent title search (legal malpractice)
• Motor vehicle bicycle accidents
• Railroad crossing wrongful death
• Defective swivel / negligent scaffolding design
• Negligent hysterectomy / loss of kidney
• Negligent gall bladder surgery
• Negligent failure to diagnose cervical cancer
• Negligent construction of dam / canoe trip supervision / wrongful death / drowning
• Negligent design, manlift / wrongful death
• Negligent failure to diagnose colon cancer
• Negligent hernia repair surgery / Veteran’s Administration case
• Negligent failure to provide safe egress – access of construction site