Plaintiff claimed no warning of medicine’s side effects – Defense Verdict 
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: December 19, 2011
Tags: Judge Robert M.D. Turk, Medical Malpractice, Montgomery County Circuit Court
Plaintiff alleged that on Aug. 20, 2008, he was prescribed the drug Trazedone for insomnia and anxiety. He was also prescribed Celexa for depression and given Lisinopril, an anti-hypertensive drug. One of the known potential side effects of Trazedone is priapism (an erection lasting longer than four hours) and there was no dispute in the [...]
12-year-old suffers complications from rollerblading fracture – $613,312 Verdict 
By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: October 4, 2010
Tags: Judge Robert M.D. Turk, Medical Malpractice, Montgomery County Circuit Court
Plaintiff, a 12-year-old boy, suffered a comminuted left femur fracture while rollerblading on Nov. 25, 2006. The defendant applied external fixation (a kind of mobile traction device) and set the fracture in varus (outward bowing) somewhere between 12 degrees and 15 degrees according to defense experts, and at 17 or18 degrees, according to measurements taken [...]

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