A jury awarded the family of a former Windham supervisor with more than a million dollars for a wrongful death claim filed against an Albany hospital last Thursday.

Thomas P. Meeham had been one of the known supervisors in Windham, New York and was re-elected as a town official nineteen times. While doing his role as a public servant with the community, Meehan also worked as a carpenter until he came into Albany Medical Center Hospital for a hip replacement on November 11, 2009.

The day after his surgery, Meehan still managed to walk but over the next two days, he had experienced events of dyspnea, a condition referring to the difficulty in breathing. He died the following day.

The family’s wrongful death attorney said those symptoms that Meehan had experienced are a sign that he is in the early stage of having pulmonary embolism. It is a condition wherein the main artery of the lung or one of its branches is blocked by a substance that has traveled through the bloodstream from somewhere else in the body. A blood clot from the deep veins in the legs usually cause pulmonary embolism.

In their lawsuit, the family affirmed that Meehan’s attending physician – Dr. Aniko Felligi failed to request scans that could have determined the blood clots. Meehan could have survived from his seizure if he was administered with an anticoagulant.

The jury granted the family with a total of $1.4 million for economic damages, which included the decedent’s future earnings and the value of tasks he may have done.

The award value for the family’s wrongful death claim is higher than expected and the Los Angeles injury attorneys see the court’s decision engaging.

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They say there is no price high enough for beauty, but apparently there is.

Solange Magnano, former Miss Argentina in 1994, paid the ultimate price to have a slightly firmer behind.

Magnano, died after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her buttocks in Buenos Aires.

The procedure was called gluteoplasty and involved placing implants in the buttocks to improve its outline.

She died of pulmonary embolism after three days in critical condition.

According to some reports, the liquid that was injected into her buttocks went to her lungs and brain.

Authorities are now investigating the cause of death.

The family of Magnano should seriously consult a wrongful death attorney to know their legal options.

If there was negligence done by the doctors and medical professionals during the procedure then they and the hospital should be held liable for their actions.

I do not know the law that covers negligence and medical malpractice in Argentina but I am sure that they will be going after the people involved in this tragedy.

Hopefully her family can find justice for her death.

Solange Magnano was 37 years-old and is survived by her twin 7-year-old daughters.

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