Victoria Negron

This case involves a woman with a history of aortic aneurysm who presented to the emergency room with foot pain. The patient was diagnosed with a skin infection, given an Amoxicillin prescription, and discharged. The patient returned to the emergency…

This case involves a young woman who presented to the ER with new-onset seizures. The patient suffered a stroke within a few hours of hospitalization and was treated for alcohol withdrawal seizures. While the young woman was in the hospital,…

This case involves a woman who was injured trying to lift patio equipment. She went into the outdoor patio department of a discount retailer and asked a sales associate for assistance lifting the equipment into her shopping cart. The sales associate attempted…

This case involves a female patient who went in for a colectomy to remove a malignant tumor in her descending colon. Following the procedure, the patient was given chemotherapy treatment but the patient continued to have recurrent colon cancer with…

This case involves a man who was pulled over for speeding on a major thruway. He was administered a ticket but no breathalyzer reading was recorded. Several hours later, the same man was arrested for disorderly conduct in a residential…

This case involves an elderly male patient who was discharged from a hospital emergency room despite having lab results consistent with sepsis. Although the patient’s lab results triggered the hospital’s “severe sepsis warning” in the electronic medical record, these notifications…

This case involves a contractor from Oklahoma who was working on an exterior painting project for a building within a large business complex. While she was on top of the scaffolding, the scaffolding moved away from the building and she…

This case involves investors that purchased mortgage-backed securities (MBS) who demanded repurchase of the MBS. The loans that were represented as solid or safe turned out to be fraudulently reported subprime loans. It is alleged that the mortgage servicing company…

This case involves an employee that was initiating a wash-out for a filling machine. He was left alone to perform this task with no direction from the manager in spite of the fact that he had no formal training in…

This case involves a dispute between two educational entities — a charter school and a class of public school districts. The charter school initiated a pre-kindergarten program for four-year-old students. This program was funded with monies paid by the school…