TRIAL ADVOCATE
Scott Nixon

COURT
Denver District Court

CASE TYPE
Medical Malpractice

CLIENT
Emergency Medicine Physician

ISSUES - The plaintiff alleged that the physician failed to diagnose an ischemic stroke in the emergency department. Mr. Nixon was successful in persuading the jury not only that the physician was not negligent in failing to diagnose ischemic stroke at the time of the patient’s presentation, but also that administration of thrombolytic therapy would have been unlikely to have made a substantial difference in the patient’s outcome, and therefore any alleged delay in recognition and treatment did not cause harm.