The estate of a woman who was 87 at the time of her death was awarded $3 million in a wrongful death action in Philadelphia, though settlements may reduce the overall recovery amount.

A Philadelphia jury in late June found in Kessler v. Berman that anesthesiologist Marvin Berman and nurse anesthetist Jeffrey Park were causally negligent in their care of Jeanette Kessler, who died in the hospital after an elective knee replacement surgery.