In October 2025, Chris Logan and Jack Logan obtained a defense verdict for five trauma surgeons who cared for a patient with injuries from a motorcycle accident over the course of an 11-day hospital admission. The plaintiffs were the estate and surviving husband of the patient who was transferred by life flight to the trauma surgeons’ hospital after being emergently assessed at another hospital in the region. At the first hospital an emergency physician ordered CT imaging for the patient’s traumatic injuries. The CT study revealed an incidental finding of a lung lesion suspicious for malignancy. After the imaging was completed, the decedent was transferred by life flight to our trauma surgeons’ hospital where she was stabilized and underwent numerous surgeries. The patient was later diagnosed with lung cancer and died. Plaintiffs claimed the defendants failed to communicate incidental findings from the CT study performed at the first hospital to the decedent, resulting in a delayed diagnosis of the lung cancer that caused her death several years later. At the conclusion of a seven-day jury trial, the Plaintiffs asked for $3,000,000.00 in damages in closing after the court reduced the amount they could request from $4,500,000.00. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendants.
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Civil Litigation