This study identified 240 malpractice cases related to colorectal cancer (CRC) between 1988 and 2018 by using a legal database called VerdictSearch. This database is skewed toward lawsuits from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, and California. The reviewed lawsuits had defense verdicts in 42.1% of cases, plaintiff verdicts in 15.4%, and settlements in 40%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most common defendants were primary care physicians (25.4%) and gastroenterologists (22.9%). The most common allegations were failure to perform colonoscopy for symptoms (27.9%), failure to utilize screening colonoscopy according to guidelines (19.2%), and failure to detect CRC at colonoscopy (19%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most common injuries were cancer metastasis (56%), new cancer (22%), and the need for surgery (7.5%). For all injuries with plaintiff verdict cases, mean payments were around $2 million, with a wide variation in amounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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