On April 30, 2026, Mr. Waterman settled a medical malpractice case of wrong-site/wrong-procedure surgery for $500,000.00. He previously has settled an even more substantial wrong-site surgery case, and currently is handling two more wrong-site surgery cases, both involving the same Peninsula surgery center a month apart in time. The Federal government coined wrong-site surgery as a “never event” – an incident that never should happen – two decades ago.
As always, the parties and location of Mr. Waterman’s recent wrong-site surgery settlement are confidential. Yet the case facts are not.
A patient consented to surgical removal of a cyst on the mid-back. But the general surgeon mischaracterized that sebaceous (nodule) cyst as a pilonidal (tract) cyst, failed to mark and verify the site pre-operatively, and prepped and removed good tissue from the upper buttocks crack 10”-12” lower than the cyst – despite supposedly confirming the correct site/procedure by post-anesthesia pre-incision timeout.
If you have a wrong-site surgery case, contact Mr. Waterman to maximize you recovery for your damages. He is an award-winning lawyer, honored in Best Lawyers in America for medical malpractice and personal injury for 20 consecutive years – including 6 years as “Lawyer of the Year” in Southeast Virginia – and in Virginia Super Lawyers for medical malpractice and personal injury for 17 consecutive years.