Ty Brown settled a case on behalf of an elderly woman who did not receive proper medical care from a rehabilitation hospital. The client had undergone surgery to repair her broken ankle; the wound was covered with surgical dressing and she was soon transferred to the rehabilitation center. While there, her surgical dressing was not unwrapped and changed nor removed from her ankle for nearly three weeks. As a result, a large infection extending into the bone occurred. She was forced to undergo more surgery and therapy.
Alabama’s Unique Rule for Defective Products
A Product Liability Framework Unique to Alabama Alabama takes a genuinely different approach to defective product claims than most other states, one built around a doctrine found nowhere else in the country. Understanding how this framework actually works matters...