In what appears to be the county’s largest reported medical malpractice jury verdict in at least 16 years, a Northumberland County jury awarded $625,000 to a man who was permanently disabled after ­suffering what is known as a “mini stroke.”

After four days of trial and about three hours of deliberations in Smith v. Wagner, a 12-member jury returned the verdict Sept. 22 in Judge Charles H. Saylor’s courtroom.