05/19/2026
Some cases are taken because they are winnable.
Others are taken because if no one takes them, the conduct never reaches public accountability, and the next patient walks into the same clinic with no warning.
In this Vegas Legal Magazine feature, attorney Kimball Jones of Bighorn Law joins Mark Fierro to discuss a medical malpractice matter that, by his own assessment, most firms in the state would have declined.
Here are the facts:
A woman, pregnant and wanting the pregnancy, is told by her medical providers that her pregnancy is not viable. The clinic reports no fetal heartbeat. Subsequent appointments confirm the same diagnosis. She is offered two options: complete the procedure at home through medication or allow the clinic to perform it. She chooses the latter.
The diagnosis was wrong. The pregnancy was viable. The procedure did not end it. When she returns with continuing symptoms, she is given additional medication and told to take it on the way home. She stops at a hospital instead. There, she learns she is still pregnant. Today, her child is three years old.
The case did not fit standard intake criteria. Under Nevada's medical malpractice damage caps, the economics were difficult to justify. The decision to take it was made because the alternative was structural silence.
This is the conversation that follows. It is candid, it is restrained, and it is a useful look at how trial firms decide which cases the public will ever hear about.
🎥 Hear the full case breakdown from Kimball Jones: https://youtu.be/G9p8RC-LMs8?si=C5lIInuTjr1yfmdr
In this Vegas Legal Magazine feature, attorney Kimball Jones of Bighorn Law joins host Mark Fierro to discuss a medical malpractice case that nearly never re...