A Philadelphia jury on March 6 awarded $6 million to the estate and wife of a 65-year-old man who died of liver cancer after his doctors disregarded two separate recommendations for MRIs by radiologists.
However, the exact portion of the verdict that is actually recoverable is unclear. Two of the three defendant doctors named on the verdict sheet settled for confidential amounts before trial, leaving only Dr. Eugene Choi, whom the jury found to be 32 percent liable. While that would typically leave Choi on the hook for $1.92 million, that’s not necessarily the case here because the estate and Choi entered into a confidential high-low agreement just before the jury came back with the verdict.
