Douglas R. Lewis and Kimberly K. Bocell obtained a unanimous defense verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit in Dallas County.\u00a0 Plaintiff claimed that the Defendant, a board-certified OB\/GYN, failed to properly evaluate and treat her for a post-partum infection following the uneventful delivery of her baby.\u00a0 Plaintiff sought economic and non-economic damages in excess of $650,000.00.\u00a0 Defendant argued that Plaintiff\u2019s post-partum course was normal and expected and that she never showed signs of an infection prior to her discharge.\u00a0 Instead, once at home, she developed a rare, aggressive, unforeseeable infection in her lungs that quickly turned into sepsis.\u00a0 The Plaintiff returned to the hospital the next day and her infection was diagnosed and successfully treated during a lengthy hospital course.\u00a0 The jury returned their unanimous verdict for the Defendant-Physician after just 41 minutes of deliberation.<\/p>\n
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