Gibbs v. Kings Daughter Hospital

Our 18-year-old client suffered paralysis and bowel and bladder dysfunction after emergency room staff failed to diagnose her arterial venous malformation. Gibbs first went to King’s Daughters Hospital emergency room with intense lower back pain. She was subsequently released. The next evening, she went to Delta Regional Medical Center, but they sent her back to King’s Daughters, where she was again released. The next night, Gibbs had numbness in her legs. Her physician at King’s Daughter examined her and released her. By the next morning, Gibbs was paralyzed from the waist down. An ambulance brought her to Delta Regional, where a neurologist finally diagnosed her paralysis and ordered a myelogram. Because he did not order the myelogram “stat,”, her surgery was not performed for 12 hours. By then, permanent damage had occurred. The neurologist and Delta Regional settled for a confidential amount. A jury verdict against King’s Daughters and the emergency room physician awarded Gibbs $2 million.