marketwatch.com on November 04, 2011 reported that Tom Metier of Metier Law Firm, LLC, of Cheyenne, Wyoming and Fort Colllins, Colorado, obtained a $9 million verdict for plaintiffs Louis and Rebecca Prager against Campbell County Memorial Hospital and Brian Cullison, M.D. for medical negligence. Metier was acting as trial counsel for Casper attorneys Todd Ingram and Scott Olheiser of Ingram Olheiser, P.C. Ingram and Olheiser successfully litigated the case prior to trial. The verdict is believed to be the highest medical malpractice verdict on record in Wyoming. According to officials and news archives, the previous record was $1.5 million. The verdict in favor of Louis and Rebecca Prager was rendered late last Thursday, October 27th, 2011, in Federal District Court in Cheyenne. The jury found that Cullison, a Board Certified Emergency Physician employed by the regional hospital, breached the standard of medical care by failing to diagnose Louis Prager's broken neck, causing Prager permanent left shoulder paralysis, debilitating pain and depriving Prager of the ability to work.

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JusticeNewsFlash.com on October 05, 2010 reported that a Las Vegas man filed a $5 million medical malpractice lawsuit against a Gillette-based hospital, claiming doctors failed to diagnose his neck injury prior to releasing his from the medical center. The plaintiff was apparently rushed to Campbell County Memorial Hospital after suffering injuries in a December 2008 rollover accident, according to information provided by the Gillette News Record.

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