Joe O'Neill

This case involves a middle aged female patient who developed complications following an adrenalectomy procedure to remove a tumor from his right adrenal gland. The patient originally went into the defending hospital to have a tumor removed from her right adrenal…

This case takes place in Kansas and involves an elderly female who was assisting in cleaning an above ground swimming pool at his son’s home. She stood on the ledge of the above ground pool, which bent off of the…

This case involves a woman who was injured while painting the walls of a retail store in Montana. Her company was hired as a sub-contractor to paint the store, which was undergoing extensive renovations. While the plaintiff was painting the…

This case involves a plaintiff who was involved in a probate situation over property in the state of Montana that she and another individual had inherited from a mutual family member. According to the terms of the will, each was…

This case takes place in Iowa and involves a patient who suffered a serious orthopedic incident following a failure of an artificial knee system. The plaintiff had the prosthetic knee for several months before it failed. The particular knee replacement system…

This case takes place in Kansas and involves the alleged wrongful termination of a police department internal affairs officer. The former officer alleges that he was wrongfully terminated for following appropriate policies and protocol, while his supervisors and their cohorts were…

This case takes place in Louisiana and involves a middle aged patient with a past medical history of morbid obesity. The patient had undergone a vertical banded gastroplasty before, but failed to lose weight following the procedure. He was also…

The plaintiff was seeing a psychiatrist for bipolar disorder and depression. Though he had self-medicated with homeopathic remedies like St. John’s Wort, his worsening condition caused him to seek out more substantive medical care. Consequently, he had undergone ECT (electroconvulsive…

This case takes place in Iowa and involves an older male patient. The patient had a morphine pump placed due to chronic back pain; however the morphine pump failed to alleviate the patient’s pain, so the defending neurosurgeon removed it.…

This case takes place in Louisiana and involves a middle aged patient who suffered burns after a cosmetic procedure. The plaintiff saw the defending plastic surgeon for laser liposuction procedure using “Smart-lipo” machinery, and was told that the “Smart-lipo” was…