$10.35M Settlement After Doctors Fail to Diagnose Virus
Brian Drazin and Justin Drazin
Published in the New Jersey Law Journal
September 19, 2024
By Charles Toutant
Article Summary: Brian Drazin and Justin Drazin of Drazin and Warshaw secured a $10.35 million settlement for the family of a 42-year-old man who was rendered blind and partially paralyzed after doctors failed to diagnose an inflammation of the brain caused by Varicella Zoster Virus.
The case was besieged by co-defendants pointing the blame on each other and by the intense amount of medical research and analysis required.
As Justin Drazin explained, “Over the course of almost five years, litigating this case, investigating it, hundreds and thousands of hours of time put in between the research, discussions with our experts, research on the internet, reading medical journals,” he was “basically eating, sleeping, breathing, this case, for the better part of five years.”
As a result, Drazin “became extremely, extremely knowledgeable in the specifics of neurology related to this claim, in the specifics of diagnostic radiology related to the claim.”
“I read an exhaustive amount of medical journals, literature, studies, scientific papers, from around the world on these topics, which I think ultimately gave me the ability to confront these defense experts in the opinions that they offered and really discount and diminish the validity of those opinions that they were trying to argue,” Justin Drazin said.
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