$9.9 million - Record settlement for failure to diagnose coronary artery disease in 38-year-old executive and married father.

Our wrongful death attorneys recently settled a case in San Francisco involving the death of an athletic 38-year-old executive, who stopped at a clinic on his way to the airport complaining of exertional and resting chest "tightness," which was relieved by Advil. The EKG was normal; there were no cardiac risk factors. The doctor diagnosed chest muscle strain and allowed the decedent to fly on to Colorado and then Mexico. He died 7 days after the clinic visit. Unfortunately, his tissue was severely decomposed when it was returned to the United States. There was no evidence of myocardic infarction, but there was an 85% sclerotic lesion in the right coronary artery and congenital narrowing of the left coronary artery. We contended that the decedent died of myocardio-ischemia. Defendants argued that the decedent appeared healthy and in no distress and therefore the clinic symptoms were not cardiac and his death was probably from some other cause. Our wrongful death attorneys in San Francisco believe that this is the largest pre-judgment medical malpractice settlement in California history.

$3.5 million - Our wrongful death attorneys in San Francisco garnered a settlement for failure to diagnose impending heart attack in 32-year-old father, runner and insurance executive.

$2.5 million - Failure to identify and treat dangerous cardiac arrhythmia in 30-year-old ophthalmologist, leaving wife and children. Our wrongful death attorneys in San Francisco litigated this case.

$1.5 million - Settlement for improperly performed angioplasty resulting in death of 48-year-old man. (Hawaii).

$1.0 million - Policy limits settlement for death of 45-year-old painter when bladder was perforated during cancer surgery (Hawaii).

$1.0 million - Our wrongful death attorneys in San Francisco were able to garner an award for the policy limits settlement for death of 50-year-old man over-radiated for brain tumor.

$1.0 million Policy limits for failure to diagnose colon cancer in 45-year-old dentist.