A Dougherty County jury this week awarded more than $24 million to a young football star who lost a leg when the medical staff that should have been monitoring him following surgery for an injured leg failed to detect a vascular blockage.
Whether Georgia’s tort reform law-and, almost undoubtedly, the state Supreme Court-will allow Reginald Harris Jr. to recover the full award is unclear, since $18 million of it is characterized as non-economic damages that exceed the statutory cap.
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