A $15 million settlement has been reached in a medical malpractice lawsuit nearly a year after a $22 million verdict was thrown out over an incorrect jury charge.

The jury charge issue, which split the Court of Appeals before the state justices weighed in, centered on defense claims that the jury was improperly allowed to consider claims for both ordinary negligence and professional malpractice against the defendant doctor and his co-defendants.

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