Practice Area Category: Medical Malpractice

An 8 year-old boy contracted an infection when antibiotic therapy was stopped at the direction of his pediatric urologist, resulting in permanent kidney damage and the need for a kidney transplant. Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C., reviewed thousands of documents and developed strong theories supported by the boy’s…

A 45-year-old woman who received a series of epidural injections to her cervical spine and developed an epidural abscess that went undiagnosed until it caused a permanent spinal cord injury. Due to the delay in diagnosis and treatment, our client will be walker and wheelchair bound. Kenneth Rothweiler and Nancy…

The law firm of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C., settled a case for $14,000,000 for the failure to properly monitor vital signs that resulted in death.

Despite complaints of pain and other symptoms by the patient, emergency room physicians failed to order a CT scan that would have revealed a tumor pressing on her brain. Now, the single mother is blind, paralyzed, and brain-damaged requiring 24-hour care. Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C., argued that…

Partners Ken Rothweiler and Daniel Jeck resolved a medical malpractice action in Philadelphia just prior to trial arising from the failure by Obstetricians at a local hospital to recognize and appreciate a pattern of non-reassuring fetal heart rate tracings that warned of significant fetal cord occlusion or blockage in a…

After surgery for an abnormally curved spine, a 7-year-old girl was transferred to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) to recover. As is proper procedure, the patient was restrained using soft wrist restraints to guard against her removing her breathing tube (a normal reaction when patients regain consciousness). Within hours…

After experiencing respiratory problems, a 10-week-old boy was taken by his mother to a local emergency room. The physicians failed to diagnose his illness and improperly discharged him. After his release, the baby experienced seizures which caused severe, permanent brain damage. When the boy was 4 years of age, Eisenberg,…

Labor and delivery nurses failed to recognize and react in a timely way to fetal heart rate abnormalities that can often precede uterine rupture. After several weeks of trial where liability was aggressively contested, Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C., proved that the nursing staff, undergoing a shift change,…

A 55-year-old city worker underwent surgery to remove a tumor on his esophagus and received pain medication through an epidural catheter inserted in his back after surgery. A few days later, when the nurse removed the catheter, she notified the surgeon of pus at the site and the doctor ordered…