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Trial Guides would like to recognize trial attorney John K. Powers of Powers & Santola in Albany, NY.  John is a longtime Trial Guides customer, with a string of impressive verdicts on behalf of seriously injured people.

John's most recent case is especially important because the settlement terms forced a hospital to institute important safety changes to reduce future medical errors and deaths. In the case, a young, healthy mother bled to death following a C-section. The $5.2 million settlement included additional non-monetary conditions that required the hospital to conduct an annual series of patient safety lectures, named for the mother, for the next twenty years; to purchase a maternal and neonatal simulator to be used in staff training on the labor and delivery unit; and to change procedures on the use of a machine that monitors a patient's vital signs during childbirth.