Florida Cancer Misdiagnosis Lawyer

• Judy Karpinski was told she had skin cancer in 2021. She and her husband were so devastated they canceled a $10,000 nonrefundable six-week vacation to Turks and Caicos. Karpinski also upgraded her medical insurance and paid out-of-pocket for tests and consultations. However, she soon learned she never had skin cancer and did not need any treatment. Unfortunately, her attorneys advised against filing a claim because she was healthy, and going to court would be more expensive than her damages.
• Sandra Kaus was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. Two weeks later, her doctor told her she should have received the diagnosis earlier and that the delayed diagnosis was due to an administrative mistake. To eliminate all traces of cancer, she underwent a double mastectomy.
• Jennifer Rufer was misdiagnosed with cancer at 22. She underwent an unnecessary hysterectomy and debilitating chemotherapy. Although she will never regain fertility, Rufer won a $16 million lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories—which created the pregnancy test on which her diagnosis was based—and the hospital that treated her. 
• A University of Kansas Hospital patient was misdiagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had a noncancerous organ removed. The hospital tried to cover it up. When the patient discovered she never had cancer, she sued the hospital for negligence and fraud. She received $1.8 million in cancer misdiagnosis settlement payouts from the hospital and doctor who made the misdiagnosis.

Freedland Harwin Valori Gander has handled dozens of “failure to diagnose cancer” cases. We have represented clients who had mammograms that were misread by the interpreting radiologist, which caused a delay in diagnosis. We have also handled cases where the mammogram and/or ultrasound were interpreted properly, but the facility and physicians failed to promptly report those results to the patient.

Failure to diagnose cancer cases are not limited to breast cancer. We also have experience handling cases where a patient had a chest x-ray, and the physicians missed lung cancer. We have also brought cases against the interpreting pathologist when they missed cancer on the pathology slides.

It is incredibly important in these cases, like most medical malpractice cases, to have the right team of experts to advocate for what should have been done and how it could have changed the outcome.