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Date: 06-12-2000

Case Style: Malcolm K. Rawson v. Baptist Hospital, Inc.

Case Number: 90-6078-CA-01

Judge: Kim Skievaski

Court: Circuit Court, Escambia County, Florida

Plaintiff's Attorney: Frederic G. Levin, Martin H. Levin and Robert M. Loehr of Levin Middlebrooks, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner, Proctor & Papantonio, P.A., Pensacola, Florida

Defendant's Attorney: S. William Fuller of Fuller & Johnson, Tallahassee and Pensacola and J. Nixon Daniel, III, of Beggs & Lane, Pensacola, Florida

Description: Medical Malpractice - Failure of emergency room doctors to promptly refer and transfer bends victim to nearest facility with hyperbaric chamber with resulting paralysis on lose of the use of the patient's legs, bowels and bladder. Plaintiff's was 34-years-old in 1998 when he developed the bends while diving near Pensacola, as a result of a number decisions which he claimed were substandard or negligent, it took several hours for him to received appropriate treatment and with the result that he sustained serious neurological harm.

Defendants denied wrongdoing.

Outcome: Plaintiff's verdict for $31.1 million.

Plaintiff's Experts: Unknown

Defendant's Experts: Unknown

Comments: None



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