Case Studies

Risk management in action. Read case studies based on actual TMLT medical malpractice claims.

Disclaimer

These closed claim studies are based on actual malpractice claims from Texas Medical Liability Trust. These cases illustrate how action or inaction on the part of the physicians led to allegations of professional liability, and how risk management techniques may have either prevented the outcome or increased the physician's defensibility. These studies have been modified to protect the privacy of the physicians and the patient.

Case Studies

Failure to respond to a neurologic emergency

Failure to treat hypertension

Failure to properly interpret a screening mammogram

Differential diagnosis not reported

Failure to prevent aspiration

Failure to properly evaluate and treat depression

Failure to intubate patient

Failure to diagnose meningitis