Voicu & Filipescu has successfully represented a client before the court of first instance and on appeal in a medical malpractice case, being awarded RON 550,000 in damages.
According to Voicu & Filipescu, the case regarded a motion “against a doctor and the hospital where the client had a surgical intervention in which, through an incorrect medical practice, a medical needle was left implanted in the uterus.”
The court proceedings, the firm informed, “included a medical examination which indirectly established that the existence of the external body endangered our client’s life but did not establish the fact that the loss of two pregnancies in a two-year interval was related to the act of malpractice. However, the arguments in the file were supplemented by [the firm] with indirect evidence and elements that highlighted the serious danger in which the client [finds themselves]: interrogations, hearing of witnesses, medical documents.”
According to the firm, the court awarded “substantial moral damages in the amount of RON 550,000, the highest amount awarded in a malpractice medical case, which represents a first in our judicial practice related to the committed act.”