$7,000,000.00 Recovery for Death Caused by Hospital’s Failure to Prevent Blood Clots Rushing to help respond to an emergency, a young man received minor injuries in a car accident, for which he was briefly hospitalized. Unfortunately, because he was bedridden, blood clots formed in his legs which went unrecognized by hospital staff. Shortly after the hospital discharged him, he died when the clots moved into his lungs. Tim Lawn and Jerry McHugh achieved this confidential $7,000,000.00 settlement for his family, which included an agreement to change the way in which the hospital trained its new residents.