Harlan M. Gordon, Senior Partner

Verdicts & Settlements

• Emergency Room Improperly Drains Abscess, Settles for $315,000

Amount:	$315,000
Court:	Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
Date:	April 1998
Plaintiff's Counsel:	Harlan M. Gordon, Ellen M. McCarthy
Description: Medical Malpractice Our client was a 52-year-old patient. Defendant emergency room physician injured her rectum while performing an incision and drainage of a Bartholin abscess resulting in a rectal labial fistula which required a temporary (3 months) colostomy, after which she made a complete recovery.
Harlan M. Gordon	Ellen M. McCarthy

• Victim Recovers $5,250,000 from Trucking Company

Amount:	$5,250,000
Court:	Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
Date:	November 2000
Plaintiff's Counsel:	Harlan M. Gordon, William S. Jacobson, Jamie R. Lebovitz
Description: Semi-Truck/Pedestrian A semi-tractor trailer ran over our 25- year-old client, a pedestrian, resulting in the following injuries: skull fractures, bilateral temporal bone fractures, brain injury, cranial and palsy nerve injuries, dislocation of bones of inner ear and muscular skeletal injuries to upper and lower extremiities of body, psychological and emotional injuries. He is permanently and totally disabled.
Harlan M. Gordon	William S. Jacobson
Jamie R. Lebovitz

• $900,000 Settlement Against Physican Failing to Timely Diagnose Lung Cancer

Amount:	$900,000
Court:	Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
Date:	January 1996
Plaintiff's Counsel:	Harlan M. Gordon
Description: Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice case involving failure to timely diagnose lung cancer. Plaintiff claimed that his wife had chest x-rays on April 26, 1989, and January 2, 1990, which demonstrated the presence of a treatable cancerous lesion. Defendant's experts claimed that the x-rays were not misread and that, in either case, the lung cancerous lesion was not treatable in 1989 and she would have died anyway. Decedent's husband did not seek legal assistance until more than one year after his wife learned of her condition and, therefore, there was no survivor action claim, only wrongful death.
Harlan M. Gordon

• Physicians Pay $700,000 in Shoulder Dystocia Birth Trauma

Amount:	$700,000
Court:	Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
Date:	April 2001
Plaintiff's Counsel:	Harlan M. Gordon, Thomas Mester
Description: Medical Malpractice Plaintiff suffered birth trauma when defendants encountered shoulder dystocia and there was a documented use of fundal pressure. Defendants deny fundal pressure was utilized in relieving shoulder dystocia and indicated that appropriate maneuvers were utilized but not documented.
Harlan M. Gordon	Thomas Mester

• Failure to Timely Treat Strep Infection Results in $4,000,000 Settlement

Amount:	$4,000,000
Court:	Cuyahoga County Common Pleas
Date:	June 2001
Plaintiff's Counsel:	Harlan M. Gordon, David M. Paris, William S. Jacobson
Description: Medical Malpractice Our client delivered her first child and developed a postpartum uterine infection within 12 hours of delivery. Her signs and symptoms (fever, elevated WBC, and confusion) went unrecognized and untreated for another 14 hours after which point she went into shock and succumbed. This was a fulminant Group A strep toxic shock-like syndrome. The defense argued that by the time a reasonable physician could be expected to recognize the condition it was too late to save her. After three days of trial, a settlement was reached. Our client was survived by her daughter, husband, parents, and sister.
Harlan M. Gordon	David M. Paris
William S. Jacobson