On January 26, 2012 Marc Erickson and Vanessa Gross successfully defended our client, a local orthopedic surgeon, in a jury trial in which the plaintiff alleged that negligent placement of a component during a total hip replacement surgery caused subsequent dislocations and subsequent revision surgeries.  In a total hip replacement surgery, an acetabular component (which [...]

 On December 19, 2011, the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, granted a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by Wagstaff & Cartmell on behalf of Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City.  The court dismissed the case, in which Plaintiffs were attempting to bring a class action to challenge certain billing practices.  Wagstaff & [...]

Brandon Henry and Sarah Ruane successfully defended our client, a local obstetrician/gynecologist, in a jury trial in which the plaintiffs made claims of alleged failure to diagnose and treat an infectious process in a patient during pregnancy. The plaintiffs, a mother and minor child, alleged that our client, based upon a concern about an ongoing [...]

Marc Erickson and Brandon Henry successfully defended our client, a gastroenterologist, in a jury trial in Jackson County, Missouri. The patient had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer and our client was performing an esophageal dilation when he unintentionally perforated the patient’s esophagus. As a result of the perforation, the patient underwent multiple surgeries. The patient [...]