The family of a 68-year-old Naugatuck man who died when Hartford Hospital personnel failed to reconnect wires of his pacemaker before administering a potent narcotic was awarded $5.8 million by a jury Wednesday morning.
“They [hospital staff] were treating this patient as a generality as opposed to paying attention to his specific needs,” Eric P. Smith, attorney for the Ashmore family, told the Connecticut Law Tribune just hours after the six-person Waterbury Superior Court jury reached its decision.
