Margaret Cooper Roney

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  Lewis Thomason, P.C.
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  REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS: Obtained a defense verdict in favor of an urgent care physician in a two-week wrongful death healthcare liability trial in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleged the defendant physician misdiagnosed the decedent with gastroesophageal reflux disease four days prior to his death from cardiac tamponade as a result of a rare heart infection called purulent bacterial pericarditis. In closing arguments, plaintiff's counsel asked the jury for $4,372,736 in economic damages
  $750,000 in non-economic damages. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant physician, finding that she did not deviate from the applicable st
  ard of care.
  Obtained a defense verdict in a healthcare liability case that was tried in Shelby County Circuit Court. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant surgeon improperly performed a hernia repair surgery on her in May of 2019. Following a six day trial, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant surgeon, finding that he did not deviate from the st
  ard of care.
  Won a defense verdict in a healthcare liability after several years of litigation which involved the alleged failure to diagnose a college student with a rare neurological condition. Following a twelve-day trial, the jury returned a defense verdict, finding that our clients fully complied with the st
  ard of care in their care
  treatment.
  Prevailed in the Tennessee Court of Appeals in healthcare liability matter in which Appellant initially filed suit against a doctor
  the hospital where she had surgery alleging medical malpractice. The trial court dismissed the matter without prejudice on first day of trial. The Appellant refiled the lawsuit against the doctor
  the doctor's employer. In the refiled lawsuit, the trial court dismissed the claims against the doctor on the basis that Appellant failed to substantially comply with TCA 29-26-121 by failing to provide a medical authorization that would allow the doctor to obtain a complete set of medical records from all other providers receiving notice,
  therefore found that she was not entitled to an extension of the saving statute. In addition, the trial court granted the employer summary judgment on the basis that the first complaint naming it was not filed within the applicable statute of limitations. After oral argument, the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal.
  Obtained a defense verdict in a healthcare liability matter in which they represented an OB/GYN in a case involving a fetal death at 37 weeks gestation. Following a seven day trial, the jury returned a defense verdict, finding that our client complied with the st
  ard of care in his treatment of the baby's mother.
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