Medical Malpractice Case Results in $3.1 Million Dollar Settlement During Trial

Plaintiff was injured after being struck in her driver’s door in a T-Bone style collision. She was admitted to a local hospital, where she later died from complications of a herniated stomach. Plaintiff reached a partial settlement with one medical practice several months before a date- certain trial, and proceeded to trial against the second charitable medical practice. As the parties returned to Court to deliver closing arguments and shortly after the Court determined that the issue of multiple occurrences and gross negligence would be presented to the jury by way of special interrogatory, a policy limits settlement was reached with the remaining charitable defendant.