Joseph L. Messa Jr. & Associates. PC

$6.5 Million settlement for a 46 year-old woman after the negligence on a doctor's behalf caused a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage due to an unnecessary procedure which resulted in irreversible brain damage, leaving her in a coma. She was eventually transferred to a long term care nursing home facility in a vegetative state on a ventilator, surviving only with tube feeds for over two years, until her passing.Messa & Associates argued that the doctors were negligent in failing to perform a thorough diagnostic preoperative evaluation and work-up of the patient prior to her initial surgery. Messa claimed the doctors failed to obtain appropriate informed consent from the patient before performing the left carotid endarterectomy, and discussing other treatment options of her condition allowing her to make an informed decision. The defendants failed to produce or find copies of the radiology images taken in the operating room during the patient's surgery, causing a question about what real