Plaintiffs were the estate and surviving husband who alleged wrongful death due to lung cancer. On September 6, 2019, the decedent was involved in a motorcycle accident in St. Joseph, MO. She was taken to a hospital where an emergency physician ordered CT imaging for her 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 a Kansas City, KS hospital where she remained until September 17, 2019. Our firm represented five defendant trauma surgeons who cared for the decedent over the course of that 11-day admission at the Kansas City, KS hospital to treat the life-threatening trauma injuries sustained in the motorcycle accident. The Kansas City, KS hospital was also a defendant. Plaintiffs claimed the defendants failed to communicate incidental findings from the CT study performed at the St. Joseph, MO hospital to the decedent while she was at the Kansas City, KS hospital, resulting in a delayed diagnosis of 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