TN Blood Disorder Wrongful Death Action DRS Law

April 3, 2026

After extensive pre-trial discovery and a day long mediation in Nashville, Tennessee, attorney David Randolph Smith announced a confidential settlement of a wrongful death case that involved a physician’s treatment of a patient with a rare blood coagulation disorder– Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia

The patient had undergone a minor surgical procedure but suffered massive bleeding and death as a result of an inability to form blood clots.

The allegations of negligence and medical malpractice centered on the physician’s failure to administer platelets prior to and after the procedure and a failure to notify subsequent physicians (to whom the patient was transferred) that the patient had the rare inherited clotting disorder.

For more information on Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia: National Library of Medicine

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Warren County TN Wrongful Death  David Randolph Smith

October 19, 2026
On 10/20/10 the Tennessee Supreme Court reinstated a jury verdict obtained by David Randolph Smith & Associates for the widow of a Tennessee Army National Guard sergeant who died in 2000. The jury had awarded $7.2 million in the Tennessee wrongful death lawsuit against River Park Hospital of McMinnville. The Tennessee Supreme Court’s reinstatement of the verdict resulted in a total award, with interest, of $10.7 million. Warren County court officials said the multimillion-dollar judgment was the largest amount awarded by a jury in county history at the time of its award.A copy of the opinion is available here.
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Group B Strep Wrongful Death Settlement

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