Joshua Tuchscherer, Meshbesher & Spence

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It can be a problem getting information from plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers because so many cases — especially high-value cases — are subject to confidentiality agreements. And medical malpractice may be synonymous with high value. Joshua Tuchscherer of Meshbesher & Spence exemplifies the dilemma, but some information about cases is available on his website. A large portion of his practice is medical malpractice work.

In one case, a 4-year-old girl died because physicians and nurses failed to order and administer antibiotics. In another, a woman was forced to undergo a bilateral mastectomy due to failure to diagnose breast cancer. He’s also represented a person who sustained severe facial disfigurement in a fire in an operating room.

Other medical malpractice cases include failure to diagnose a spinal tumor, causing nerve damage; failure to diagnose and treat glioblastoma, damaging the quality of a patient’s remaining life; and in another, a wrongful death case was caused by negligence in sinus surgery. Vehicle collision damages are also part of the current picture for Tuchscherer. A confidential settlement was reached where a semi hauling a trailer swerved into the wrong lane, resulting in the death of two children and their mother, who was 8½ months pregnant. (The father was also killed but was driving so he was represented separately.)

And a young woman was catastrophically injured and suffered a traumatic brain injury when a semi-truck made an illegal U-turn and blocked four lanes of traffic causing a collision.