A quadriplegic who claimed his condition resulted from a delay in diagnosing and treating a broken neck accepted $2.1 million in his medical malpractice suit, Gatesy v. Perotte.
On Jan. 26, 2008, Brian Gatesy, then 28, flipped and landed on his neck while roughhousing with friends. He awoke the next day with an asthma attack and neck pain. The Linden EMS squad took him to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick without immobilizing his neck, says his lawyer, Barry Packin of Nagel Rice in Roseland.
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