Following a four-day trial, that included only two hours of deliberation, a Broward County jury awarded $24.5 million to the family of Lilia Torres, a mother of four children who died due to avoidable complications during childbirth caused by a condition the medical team was aware of before the surgery.On July 21, 2015 Lilia Torres arrived at Premiere Perinatal Associates for a scheduled C-section which was delayed until the 22nd. During the procedure, she suffered massive blood loss due to a condition, placenta previa, which had been diagnosed months earlier and was managed throughout the pregnancy. A hysterectomy was performed due to the massive blood loss. The baby was delivered on July 22, but Lilia went into cardiac and pulmonary shock with severe hypoxia due to the blood loss. She was placed on a vent and began receiving blood cells and plasma. She returned to the operating room for exploratory surgery and passed away on July 22nd, 2015 resulting from the hemorrhagic shock and multi-organ failure. She left behind her husband Rodolfo and four minor children, three girls and one boy. Lilia was the caretaker of her entire family.Haggard Law firm Trial Lawyer Todd Michaels tried the case with attorney Danny Harwin.

Following a four-day trial, a federal court jury in Miami delivered a $4.8 million verdict against Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (RCCL) in the death of passenger Richard Puchalski.A cruise to Alaska in July of 2016 is how the Puchalski family chose to enjoy the 70th birthday of its patriarch Richard. But that celebration vacation aboard RCCLs’ Explorer of The Seas turned into a traumatic tragedy when Puchalski suffered a massive cardiac arrest. Haggard Law Firm trial lawyers Michael Haggard and Todd Michaels, joined by co-counsel Phil Parrish, argued to the jury that the massive cardiac event was the direct result of decisions made by RCCL‘s shipboard doctor, Dr. Amanda Sanders. Puchalski went to the ship’s infirmary in the midst of a serious, but treatable cardiac incident. Michaels and Haggard explained to the jury that Dr. Sanders made three errors which turned the incident fatal: she failed to immediately send the grandfather to a facility that could handle the cardiac condition, she released Puchalski to his room while he was in the cardiac crisis, and she prescribed a medication which contradicted the condition she properly diagnosed. That medication led him into cardiac shock which ultimately killed him.

While being treated for a heart condition and high cholesterol, Mr. Newman’s drug regimen was modified to include two drugs which were specifically contradicted by the drug manufacturer. Soon after he began taking both medications he was seen by one of his physicians and complained of the classic symptoms associated with the combined use of the drugs and was ultimately hospitalized. None of Mr. Newman’s physicians recognized this drug error and failed to discontinue use of the medications or order the necessary diagnostic tests to make the correct diagnosis. The plaintiff suffered multiple organ failure and died.

Failure to diagnose Arterial Venous Malfunction (AVM) rendering the 20-year-old plaintiff paraplegic.