Date: 09-15-2012

Case Style: Theresa Michels v. Dr. Myron D. Haas

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Judge: Cyrus Palmer Dolbin

Court: Superior Court, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

Plaintiff's Attorney: Frederick J. Fanelli

Defendant's Attorney: Jeffrey E. Havran

Description: Theresa Michels and Nick Michels sued Dr. Myron D. Haas and Orthopedic Associates of Pottsville, Inc. on medical negligence (medical malpractice) and respondeat superior theories claiming to have been injured and damaged as a result of substandard care provided to her by Dr. Haas. She claimed that the cast he put on her broken left writs was too tight and, as a direct result, she developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy after she fell from a stool on August 23, 2003.

Defendants denied fault and asserted that the reflex dystrophy was caused by the initial injury and not from the cast.

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