After deliberating for 50 minutes, a Philadelphia jury Friday returned a $2.5 million verdict to compensate a man for the pain and suffering he received after complications in thyroid surgery that removed a malignant growth.

Eric G. Zajac, associate at Weinstein Goss Schleifer Eisenberg Winkler Rothweiler & Ostroff, argued the case for his client, Alan Feldman, before Common Pleas Court Judge Victor J. DiNubile.