New Jersey trial attorney Adam Slater of the law firm Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC has obtained a $3.9 million medical malpractice settlement for a nurse who suffered severe complications, including extensive damage to her eye, resulting from negligently performed endoscopic sinus surgery, in Maria Kania v. Gangadhar S. Sreepada, M.D., Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Passaic County, Docket No. PAS-L-1384-08.

According to the facts of the case, the plaintiff was injured during the routine sinus surgery procedure, which was intended to clear sinusitis from the plaintiff’s maxillary sinus, when the surgeon instead operated in the ethmoid sinus, cut through the side of the orbit of the eye, known as the lamina papyracea, and then severed the medial rectus muscle, which stabilizes and moves the eye. The plaintiff underwent intensive surgical efforts to repair the damage, but the eye could not be fully repaired. She was left with permanent double vision, optic nerve and corneal injury, glaucoma, disfigurement, and chronic pain. In addition, the plaintiff was unable to continue her work as a nurse.