To date, Kara Hadican Samuels has attained over $20 million in settlements for her clients in cases involving wrongful death and serious personal injury.
***Past Results are not a Guarantee of Future Success
Verdicts & Settlements
We are committed to providing the highest quality representation in personal injury, employment law, and other civil law matters.
** Past Results are not a Guarantee of Future Success
Negligent deployment of aneurysmal stent causes neurological injury: $1,625,000
Negligent delay in diagnosis of gynecological injury: $700,000
Negligent interventional radiology procedure causes skin burn: $460,000
Negligent obstetrics treatment causes stillbirth: $425,000
Negligent failure to monitor pregnant mother resulting in miscarriage: $350,000
Failure to screen or perform appropriate surveillance for colon cancer: $850,000 settlement
Negligent transfer of patient: $82,500 settlement
Failure to diagnose post-surgical complications: $1 million settlement
Negligent handling of patient during radiology: $325,000 settlement
Ford v. Touro Infirmary, et al:
$2.52 million jury verdict on behalf of a young child whose mother died within weeks of childbirth as a result of emergency room negligence
Hargrove v. LaSalle Parish School Board, et al:
Verdict on behalf of a minor child who sustained serious injury as a result of negligent instruction and supervision in a weight room
Ochsner embryo litigation:
Favorable, confidential settlements reached for couples whose human embryos were mislabeled by a fertility clinic
Medical negligence/malpractice:
Failure to timely deliver infant by cesarean section resulting in cerebral palsy, settlement of $2.986 million
Medical negligence/malpractice:
Failure to diagnose fracture: settlement of $525,000
Medical negligence/malpractice:
Verdict on behalf of minor. Physician negligently failed to rule out appendicitis before discharging minor from ER, resulting in 17 days in ICU.
Medical negligence/malpractice:
Negligently performed hysterectomy: settlement of $105,000
Premises liability:
Settlement of $50,000
Property damage insurance claim:
Settlement of $73,000
Failure to safely load patient onto CT table resulting in fall: $425,000
Failure to rule out cardiac condition, wrongful death: $495,000
Negligently exposing patient to infection: $90,000
Delay in diagnosis of bowel perforation resulting in wrongful death: $475,000
Failure to position patient and follow physician orders resulting in decubitus ulcers: $256,000
Failure to monitor patient following surgery: $400,000
Failure to safely clear patient for elective surgery, wrongful death: $867,500
Failure to safely clear child for cardiac procedure, rapid decompensation, emergency surgery: $370,000 jury verdict
Negligently losing client’s pathology specimen, unnecessary surgery: $300,000
Negligently failing to diagnose pneumonia, wrongful death: $500,000
Failure to work-up tendon injury: $125,000
Negligent surgery resulting in prolonged hospitalization and wrongful death: $1,650,000
Negligently failing to monitor patient after surgery resulting in loss of function: $1,000,000