$22 Million Malpractice Verdict in Tennessee
March 18, 2010, by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.
A woman who filed a medical malpractice lawsuit after surgery for a broken leg left her partially paralyzed was awarded $19.2 million last Friday in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The jury also awarded a $3 million verdict for her husband.
The verdict was against a surgeon, an anesthesiologist, a nurse anesthetist and Cumberland Healthcare Group, a group of 18 medical providers practicing in family medicine, pediatrics, anesthesiology, and orthopedic surgery.
