July 3, 2018
Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop, P.C. has obtained a $3,000,000 settlement for their client in a case involving a hospital’s alleged failure to timely and properly treat a patient having a stroke. The case was prosecuted by attorney Melanie J. VanOverloop. According to the trial team at Rapoport Sims Perry & VanOverloop, P.C., the defendant hospital’s emergency personnel properly called a Code Stroke after the patient developed right sided facial drooping, weakness and slurred speech, but after calling the Code Stroke the hospital’s physicians made numerous errors and improperly delayed treatment of the patient’s stroke for over five hours, tragically resulting in the patient’s death. The defendants denied these allegations. A settlement was reached a few days before trial was set to begin.
