Jury Awards $7 Million Against 2 Doctors for Negligent Post-Op Treatment Resulting in Patient's 2 1/2 Year Hospital Stay
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Dec. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A New York State Supreme Court Queens County jury returned a $7,000,000.00 verdict against Patrick Monteleone M.D. and Christopher Louis Lamendola, M.D. where they failed to diagnose and treat cardiac tamponade (bleeding into the chest) in their patient who underwent cardiac bypass surgery on November 17, 2004. As a result of their failure to relieve pressure in the chest cavity, Owen McNamara sustained a cardiac arrest after having undergone successful cardiac bypass surgery at St. Francis Hospital. Mr. McNamara needed further cardiac surgery as a result of the cardiac arrest and then went on to spend two-and-a-half years in hospitals and rehabilitation facilities and suffered multiple complications including: kidney failure, nerve damage, brain injury, tracheostomy, multiple bed sores, sepsis and shock.
Steven E. Pegalis, Pegalis and Erickson, LLC represented plaintiffs - Owen McNamara and Jo-Ann McNamara of Fresh Meadows, NY against Defendants - Christopher Louis Lamendola, M.D. and Patrick Monteleone, M.D.
Defense Attorney - Peter Bower of Bower, Monte and Green, P.C. New York, NY.
Judge - Jeffrey D. Lebowitz.
About Pegalis and Erickson:
Pegalis & Erickson, LLC is a Long Island based firm dedicated to representing individuals or their families that have been seriously injured as a result of medical malpractice, negligence and failure to diagnose. A voice and advocate for medical patient safety our core philosophy is to represent injured patients while helping to suppress the actions of careless medical practices by way of instituting accountability to parties responsible in the blatant disregard of medical safety procedures that have impacted lives.
CONTACT: Partner, Steven E. Pegalis – Cell: 516-236-1791 / Office 1-516-684-2900
SOURCE Pegalis and Erickson, LLC
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