Fort Worth Family Files Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
A family from Fort Worth has filed a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit against a local hospital after the mother died from repeated seizures. The Stingley family filed the Texas medical malpractice lawsuit against Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, as well as a neurologist and an emergency room doctor, for failing to diagnose the reasons for her seizures. The family is seeking more than $1 million in damages, despite the Texas medical malpractice laws that place high burdens of proof on plaintiffs.
Details of the Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
Records from the Texas medical malpractice lawsuit show that Kristy Stingley, a 32-year-old mother of two, had suffered a seizure in December 2013. She was transported by ambulance to Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, where she underwent a CT scan on her brain. Doctors diagnosed Mrs. Stingley with a migraine and a sinus infection, then sent her home with medication. Later that day, Mrs. Stingley suffered another seizure. In the ambulance on the way to a Fort Worth Hospital, she experienced a third seizure. Shortly after she arrived, she was diagnosed as being brain-dead and placed on life support. She was disconnected from the life support machines the next day.
Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges “Conscious Indifference”
The family’s Texas medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that Mrs. Stingley died due to “conscious indifference” on the part of the doctors and staff at Texas Health Arlington. Mr. Stingley maintains that the CT scan of his wife’s brain showed signs of bleeding, possibly from a major stroke. The family in the Texas medical malpractice lawsuit alleges that doctors ignored both Mrs. Stingley’s symptoms and the CT scan results. The suit also claims that the doctors could have prevented her death by acting on the information on the CT scans.
Texas Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Highlights Tough Laws
Despite the devastating effects of his wife’s death, Mr. Stingley and his family may face an uphill battle in their Texas medical malpractice lawsuit. A 2003 revision to the state’s malpractice laws forces victims and their families to show that emergency room doctors acted with gross negligence. The state also places limits on how much victims and their families can recover in a Texas medical malpractice lawsuit. The new laws limit the amount of damages a plaintiff can collect from emergency room malpractice to $1.6 million. The limit has not been raised in more than a decade.
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