The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has thrown into doubt the status of a $20 million verdict for compensatory damages against a Philadelphia hospital in a medical malpractice case. The jury awarded the damages to a man who allegedly suffered brain damage after hospital staffers were slow to respond to a clogged tracheotomy. The ruling is a win for the hospital's attorney, Stephen A. Cozen of Cozen O'Connor, who had maintained that the jury confused punitive damages with compensatory damages.
July 12, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
With a three-paragraph order, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has thrown into doubt the status of a $20 million verdict for compensatory damages against a local hospital in a medical malpractice case.
The verdict was one of the largest issued by a Philadelphia jury in the past few years.
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