Shrager, Spivey & Sachs

Managing partner Robert Sachs and Mike McGuckin obtained a seven-figure settlement for a woman who lost use of her arm after an improper epidural spinal injection. Her chronic back treatment was treated with injections of pain relief medicine into her spinal canal. However, a doctor carelessly push a needle into her spinal cord and injected the drug into her spinal cord nerves. Despite immediate and obvious loss of arm function, the doctor sent her home – instead of administering emergency treatment to save the use of her arm. Unfortunately, the nerves were killed and her arm quickly contracted and became useless. She also developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy, a nerve condition which causes extraordinary pain and tenderness in her arm even though she no longer has motor or sensory nerve function. Attorneys Sachs and McGuckin pursued the doctor and the hospital where she as treated, which was held accountable for the doctor’s improper care under Pennsylvania law.