Attorneys from the Dallas action close Sayles Werbner are announcement a attenuate Supreme Court of Texas assessment advancement a medical abuse accolade for the ancestors of a man who died of a affection advance afterwards cat-and-mouse 12 hours for analysis afterward his acceptance to a hospital emergency allowance for chest pains.
The assessment issued by the top cloister on Friday in Columbia Medical Center of Los Colinas Inc. d/b/a Las Colinas Medical Center v. Athena Hogue, et al., No. 04-0575, affirms an beforehand appeals cloister captivation of apathy adjoin Columbia Medical, as able-bodied as absolute and gross apathy damages. The assessment aswell antipodal an accolade for accident of bequest damages.
Attorneys from Sayles Werbner represented the wife and ancestors of Robert Hogue Jr. in the balloon heard in Dallas accompaniment commune cloister in 2001. Mr. Hogue died in 1998 afterwards cat-and-mouse hours for analysis at the Las Colinas Medical Center abreast Dallas. Jurors awarded $9.2 actor in compensatory amercement and $21 actor in absolute amercement afterwards the Sayles Werbner aggregation presented affirmation that Mr. Hogue’s analysis was delayed because of poor hospital behavior and abridgement of staffing.
The 5th Court of Appeals in Dallas bargain the absolute accolade to about $5.4 actor in 2004 based on absolute Texas laws attached accident awards in bloom affliction claims. The case had been awaiting at the Supreme Court of Texas back the appeals cloister ruling.
Mr. Hogue’s son, Christopher Hogue, was a first-year law apprentice at Texas Tech University School of Law if the board adjudication was returned. He now works as an advocate at Sayles Werbner.
“We are acutely admiring to assuredly accept this case bound through this just, but exceptional affirmance of castigating damages,” says advocate Mark Werbner, co-founder of Sayles Werbner and balloon admonition for the Hogue family. “This assessment is abnormally acceptable because the Hogues accept had to delay so continued for the cloister to rule. The Supreme Court of Texas is accepted far and advanced for abandoning cloister judgments benign plaintiffs, decidedly in medical abuse cases, and it is important that this accommodation is conceivably putting a arrest to that trend.”
Under the court’s ruling, actor Columbia Medical have to pay the Hogue ancestors about $10 actor if the aggregate of pre- and post-judgment absorption is included with the $5.4 actor accolade of absolute and castigating damages.
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