About Barrie Duchesneau
Attorney Barrie Duchesneau is a Partner at Trial Lawyers for Justice. Prior to joining the firm, she spent over a decade representing injured clients at the largest Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury law firm in the Northeast. While Barrie is a New England native, she litigates cases nationwide. Barrie is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society and a member of the Trial Law Institute, Diversity Law Institute and New Hampshire Association for Justice.
Barrie is responsible for obtaining over $200 million in settlements and has played an integral role in multi-million dollar verdicts.
In 2023, Barrie settled a claim on behalf of a 73 year old cyclist hit by truck for $5.75 million.
In 2019, Barrie helped obtain a $5.1 million settlement in the case of former Red Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks who suffered a spinal surgical injury which focused attention on the practice of simultaneous surgeries.
In 2015, Barrie successfully argued in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals, which reversed a Medical Malpractice Tribunal’s dismissal of her client’s claim. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly recognized the Appeal as one of the most influential cases of 2015. She has had continued success in the Appeals Court.
In 2014, Duchesneau was integral in winning a $16.7 million verdict for a failure to diagnose lung cancer, resulting in the death of a 47-year-old.
Duchesneau is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State of New Hampshire, The State of Iowa, The State of Nebraska, the State of South Dakota, the State of Georgia the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire, and the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Trial Lawyers for Justice
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Carrie DeJongh, 40, of Hull, Iowa, died on June 9, 2015 after receiving iodinated contrast dye for a CT scan at Sioux Center Health, when the physician treating her gave her an antihistamine but did not immediately check her vital signs or give epinephrine. Her family sued Sioux Center Health and Dr. Roy T. Slice for negligence, and both defendants denied the allegations. A Sioux County jury in Orange City returned a $29.5 million verdict on June 13, 2018, covering DeJongh's pain and suffering before her death and loss of consortium for her husband and four children. No appeal, remittitur or reduction has turned up since.
In February 2017, a physician assistant at a UnityPoint urgent care clinic in Des Moines diagnosed Joseph Dudley with the flu despite a negative flu test, sent him home on Tamiflu, and never ordered a complete blood count. Two days later Dudley was hospitalized with bacterial meningitis caused by an undetected heart valve infection, spent eight days in a medically induced coma, and suffered a series of strokes that left him with permanent brain damage, hearing loss, vertigo and nerve damage. A Polk County jury tried the malpractice claim against physician assistant Melanie Choos and Central Iowa Hospital Corp, doing business as UnityPoint Clinic, over a week in November 2022 and returned a $27,000,000 verdict, all of it noneconomic damages. The defense moved for a new trial afterward and UnityPoint said it was weighing an appeal.
Richard J. Pellock, 80, had surgery to remove bladder cancer at UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa in January 2015, and the operation succeeded. Days later he needed a second procedure for a post-surgical complication, and the nurse anesthetist handling that procedure induced anesthesia without first emptying his stomach despite signs he had a full one. Pellock aspirated, developed aspiration pneumonia and respiratory failure, and died. His widow and son sued the anesthesia group and a Dubuque County jury returned a $10 million verdict against it in September 2017, awarded entirely as loss-of-consortium damages. Defense lawyers were reported as saying they would challenge the verdict, but no Iowa appellate decision in the case has ever been published.
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