The way the plaintiffs lawyers figured it, a 31-year-old Atlanta police officer’s night of adulterous three-way sex in a motel room cost his widow and two young children $2 million out of the medical malpractice verdict they won for his fatal heart attack.
“I believe in the baby Jesus, and I sing in the church choir, but being in the Bible Belt cost my client and her sons $2 million,” said plaintiffs counsel Roderick Edmond of Edmond & Lindsay. “Those jurors punished the wife and her kids for the poor judgment of the victim, which had nothing to do with the negligence of the doctor. The medical negligence in this case was egregious.”
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