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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Crigger</p>           CHARLESTON -- A couple is suing a physician they claim failed to adequately investigate hearing loss.<br /><br />Crigger & Associates ENT, PLLC was also named as a defendant in the suit.<br /><br />Beginning in January 2008, Dr. Charles D. Crigger began seeing Daniel Rainey for hearing loss complaints, according to a complaint filed June 18 in Kanawha Circuit Court.<br /><br />Rainey claims Crigger performed at least three audiograms which noted nerve loss hearing in his left ear.<br /><br />Despite the findings, Crigger failed to adequately investigate Rainey's asymmetrical hearing loss, according to the suit.<br /><br />Rainey claims more than two years later, he suffered an acute event resulting in a complete hearing loss and an MRI was performed, which resulted in a diagnosis of a large acoustic neuroma.<br /><br />Surgery was performed to remove the acoustic neuroma and as a result of the neuroma being too large and because of the type of surgery that was performed, Rainey suffers from a visible facial drop, has cognitive defects because the removal of part of his brain and has no hearing in his left ear, according to the suit.<br /><br />Rainey claims had Crigger appropriately investigated the asymmetrical hearing loss, the standard of care of a timely referral could have been made and treatment of the neuroma could have been done.<br /><br />The defendants delay in diagnosis and treatment caused Rainey to suffer permanent nerve damage, according to the suit.<br /><br />Rainey and his wife, Lori Rainey, are seeking compensatory damages with pre-judgment interest. They are being represented by Arden J. Curry.<br /><br />The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Louis H. Bloom.<br /><br /><em>Case number: 12-C-1136</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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