A settlement in which medical professionals agreed to pay a combined $4.25 million to settle a suit over complications from a toddler’s tonsillectomy was approved by an Essex County judge on June 26 in Charles v. Thomas.
On Feb. 26, 2013, two-year-old Mike Charles was admitted to Jersey Shore University Medical Center for surgery to address snoring problems: tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy and a procedure to widen his airway. The surgery was performed by Samuel Engel, a otorhinolaryngologist, or ear, nose and throat doctor, said the Charles family’s attorney, William Crutchlow of Eichen Crutchlow Zaslow & McElroy in Red Bank.
