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September 3, 2010
$5.5 Million Los Angeles County Medical Malpractice Settlement Reached with Family of Redondo Beach Cheerleader who Sustained Permanent TBI
Los Angeles County and the family of 15-year-old Elizabeth Nicks have agreed to settle her family's California injuries to a minor lawsuit for $5.5 million. On August 16, the media reported that the county's Board of Supervisors was expected to vote on the Los Angeles medical malpractice settlement amount on August 17.
Nicks sustained her catastrophic injuries after receiving medical attention at County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She had been admitted to the hospital after she fell on on August 30, 2007 during a cheerleading accident at Aviation Park on August 30, 2007. Doctors at the hospital diagnosed and treated her small subdural hematoma. Five days later, Nicks was discharged from the hospital.
She became unresponsive the following day and was transported back to the hospital, where she was then diagnosed with retardation, massive brain damage, and paralysis. Her family's Los Angeles County medical malpractice lawyer contends that because the hospital decided not to conduct a CT scan prior to Nick's leaving the hospital, the medical staff failed to discover that her hematoma had grown in size during her stay there. Now, Nicks needs continuous nursing care.
Lawyer Charles P. Charlton is especially situated to give top quality representation to you, the individual consumer if you suffered personal injury in a variety of events because of another's negligent or intentional conduct.
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We try to reach cost effective dispute resolution by taking full advantage of opportunities to use arbitration, mediation and negotiation before turning to litigation and costly court battles. However, litigation is sometimes necessary and, once litigation has begun, our attorneys strive to achieve prompt, efficient and effective results.
The Law Offices of Charles P. Charlton was founded in 1995 as criminal and civil litigation firm dedicated to providing the highest quality legal representation to the consumer and business clients throughout the State of California.
Mr. Charlton was an oil company executive, until he became an attorney in January 1986. After years of experience working with other preeminent lawyers, he established the firm. He has successfully litigated many catastrophic injury, wrongful death, complex business, fraud and contract cases throughout his career.
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Mr. Charlton has more than twenty years experience arbitrating, litigating, mediating and negotiating a wide variety of disputes. He has successfully litigated many catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, elder abuse, employer/employee, governmental tort liability, product liability, sexual harassment and business and contract matters throughout his career Mr. Charlton's experience encompasses both state and federal courts.
