Florin Roebig Medical Malpractice Cases in the News

SPONGE SPURS LAWSUIT

A man who says a medical sponge was left inside a wound on his right leg filed a medical malpractice lawsuit.......
Tampa Tribune - June 4, 2009

$1,000,000 DOLLAR JURY VERDICT

Estate blamed heart patient's death on blood-disorder drug.............
St. Petersburg Times - July 23rd, 2004

JURY AWARDS INJURED MAN $5,000,000

Two surgeries on the 71-year-old's spine in 2000 damaged his legs and his ability to walk.
St. Petersburg Times - February 6, 2004

$2,000,000 DOLLAR JURY VERDICT

The husband died in 2000 after an aneurysm. The death, attorneys argued, could have been prevented if doctors had acted sooner.
St. Petersburg Times [STATE Edition] - September 19, 2003

JURY ORDERS ANESTHESIOLOGIST TO PAY $650,000 TO FAMILY

Woman died during routine surgery.
Tampa Tribune - February 23, 2003

HUSBAND'S MALPRACTICE CASE GOES TO JURY

Woman died after surgery in July 2001
Tampa Tribune - February 22, 2003

$5,300,000 DOLLAR JURY VERDICT

The family of a woman who died during an outpatient procedure stands to get millions because of the judgment and earlier settlements.
St. Petersburg Times - February 25, 2003

$1,000,000 SETTLEMENT WONT TAKE AWAY PAIN

A stroke victim and husband won from the hospital and the doctor they sued but their lives remain shattered due to not being given the proper anti-coagulant medicine upon arrival at the hospital emergency room.
St. Petersburg Times [STATE Edition] - March 16, 2000

$5,250,000 WRONGFUL DEATH SETTLEMENT

$5,250,000 WRONGFUL DEATH SETTLEMENT A 53 year old man died two years after undergoing surgery to correct a jaw deformity, which caused him to have severe pain. Massive irreversible brain damage.
Florida Jury Verdict Review & Analysis - March, 1999

NURSING HOME IS SUED

Man's family sues Richey Manor, saying the nursing home failed to care for him properly during his last months of life.
Tampa Tribune - June 21, 1997

$1,700,000 SURGERY THAT CAUSED PARALYSIS

Patient is partly paralyzed by a stroke after an intern performed the insertion of a catheter into her brain.
St. Petersburg Times - October 29, 1996

$1.7-million awarded in medical suit

A jury awarded $1.7-million Thursday to a woman partly paralyzed after a 1992 surgical procedure performed by a medical intern who was serving his residency at Tampa General Hospital.
St. Petersburg Times - November 8, 1996

$1,700,000 RECOVERY - MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

Failure to timely treat cardiac tamponade following catheterization procedure-resulting in partial amputation of both lower legs.
Jury Verdict Review & Analysis - May, 2000

WOMAN WANTS STATE TO PAY FOR MALPRACTICE

A woman sues the state, saying it allowed a doctor-in-training to perform a procedure that she feels led to her partial paralysis.
Tampa Tribune - October 29, 1996

$3,000,000 CANCER SIGNS IGNORED

All the cancer signs ignored when misdiagnosed as an irritable bowel by the doctors, who suggested the lady, 40 years of age see a psychiatrist.
St. Petersburg Times [CITY Edition] - February 28, 1994

$1,150,000 MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - LOSS OF LEG FUNCTION

The plaintiff alleged that nurses, employed by the defendant hospital, failed to adequately alert the co-defendant physician that the plaintiff was experiencing leg weakness and loss of function.
Jury Verdict Review & Analysis - August, 2009