Wapner, Newman, Wigrizer & Brecher Firm News

Endotracheal Tube Dislodgement Leads to Death of 27-Year-Old Woman

Marc G. Brecher, Esquire and Susan A. Morgan, Esquire, have obtained a large confidential settlement in a lawsuit against a local hospital and its intensive care staff who failed to respond in a timely manner when a patient's ventilator alarm repeatedly sounded, indicating that her endotracheal tube had dislodged. The patient was a 27-year-old woman, disabled from a rare congenital syndrome, who was hospitalized for respiratory insufficiency. Instead of determining the cause of the alarm sounding, the ICU nurse merely silenced and reset the alarm. Unfortunately, the young woman eventually coded due to the tube dislodgement and suffered irreversible brain damage before she was re-intubed. She never regained consciousness and died several days later.

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Wapner Newman Supports Organized Labor

Helping to fulfill its commitment to union members in the Delaware Valley, Wapner Newman attorneys Steve Wigrizer, Robert Miller, T. Jonathan Hankin and Michael Goldberg participated in the annual Boilermakers Local Lodge #13 Golf Outing at Northampton Valley Country Club. Proceeds from the event help support the Local's Scholarship Fund. For more than thirty years, the attorneys at Wapner, Newman, Wigrizer & Brecher have dedicated themselves to protecting the rights of injured workers throughout the Delaware Valley.