Jeanne Anne Steffin
Attorney-At-Law
"When deserving people need special legal help..."
Call: 626-235-1173
Email: jeanneannesteffin@gmail.com
Representative Cases
These are actual patients whose cases have been prosecuted in this office.
Quadriplegia, Paraplegia
Hangman’s Fracture Unrecognized
This is a high cervical fracture involving the odontoid process between the first and second vertebrae. It was caused a fall onto pavement.
Despite frequent visits to the VA because of severe neck pain and neurological problems including weakness and numbness, the fracture was missed
by both treating doctors
and in X-rays for a month.
Surgery delayed.
Result: Severe total body weakness (quadriparesis), incontinence, and loss of sexual function.
Total disability
CERVICAL DISC UNRECOGNIZED
(Multiple cases)
Surgery delayed.
Quadriplegia.
Result: Total disability, incontinence.
CERVICAL DISC SURGERY NEGLIGENTLY PERFORMED
(Multiple cases)
Spinal cord injury
Result: Severe total body weakness, incontinence
CERVICAL EPIDURAL ABSCESS (HIGH NECK INFECTION COMPRESSING SPINAL CORD)
(Multiple cases)
Neck pain, fever, and paralysis, and incontinence missed over several days in hospitalized patients despite developing paralysis. Wrong imaging studies performed. Paralysis not appreciated by examiners until too late.
Surgery and antibiotic therapy delayed.
Result: Severe weakness below neck (quadriplegia), incontinence, loss of sexual function.
Total disability.
THORACIC EPIDURAL ABSCESS (MID BACK INFECTION) COMPRESSING SPINAL CORD
(Multiple Cases)
Back pain, fever, and paralysis missed over several days in hospitalized patients despite developing paralysis. Wrong imaging studies performed. Paralysis not appreciated by examiners until too late. Wong imaging studies performed.
Surgery and antibiotic therapy delayed.
Results: Severe weakness below waist (paraplegia), incontinence, loss of sexual function. Total disability.
Cauda Equina Syndrome: Leg paralysis, incontinence
LUMBAR DISC HERNATION MISSED IN YOUNG FATHER. CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME.
Sudden onset severe of back pain. Weakness and numbness missed by examiners. Delayed review of imaging studies.
Result: Cauda Equina (lower nerve roots in back) compression causing loss of function of legs, urine incontinence, and loss of sexual function.
LUMBAR STENOSIS (NARROWING). PROGRESSIVE CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME.
Progressive back pain, leg weakness, and incontinence.
Surgical follow-up delayed for many months.
Result: Cauda Equina syndrome with severe leg weakness, numbness, incontinence, and loss of sexual function.
Metastatic Cancer: Lung, Prostate, Colon
LUNG CANCER MISSED
(Multiple Cases)
X-rays misread or not performed.
Delays months to years.
Results: Incurable, fatal.
PROSTATE CANCER MISSED
(Multiple cases)
PSA test not performed or results lost, no follow up
Digital rectal exam not performed.
Results: Fatal.
COLON CANCER MISSED
Severe anemia ignored. until too late.
Delayed X-ray and colonoscopy.
Result: Incurable, Fatal.
BENIGN COLON DISORDER MISDIAGNOSED AS CANCER
Pathology negative for cancer. Radical colon removal performed anyway.
Result: Permanent colostomy. Total disability.
Heart Attack, Heart Damage,
SEVERE CHEST PAIN WITH PAIN GOING DOWN LEFT ARM
(Multiple Cases)
No examination or cardiogram.
Heart attack misdiagnosed as “acid reflux” or entirely ignored.
Result: Severe (total) disability with heart failure.
Heart, lung transplant
Heart, Lung Disease aggravated by incorrect medication
Heart-Lung transplant necessary because of lung damage from incorrect medication.
Result: Fatal.
Brain Damage: Stroke
AUDITORY NERVE TUMOR REMOVAL
Surgery performed negligently.
Result: Severe stroke.
BRAIN HEMORRHAGE MISSED
(Multiple Cases)
Aneurysm rupture: Fatal.
Bleeding around brain (Subdural hematoma, epidural hematoma:
Fatalities, severe strokes.
CAROTID SURGERY NEGLIGENTLY PERFORMED
Clot left in artery.
Result: Stroke, paralysis.
Abdominal Aneurysm Surgery: Leg Paralysis, Incontinence, Amputations
SURGERY NEGLIGENTLY PERFORMED
(Multiple cases)
Spinal cord damage
Kidney damage
Pressure sores
Amputations at hip level
Fatality
Psychiatric illness ignored
ER Negligence
ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL MISTREATMENT (NEGLIGENCE)
Patient “tackled” in ER by security team. Severe hip fracture.
COMPENSATION FOR
Loss of independence
Lifelong Suffering and Devastating Economic Loss