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Fayette County, usually a dead zone for Medical Malpractice verdicts, awards $9.89 million due to surgery that went bad

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This article was published on Herald-Leader.com By Brandon Ortiz A $9.89 million civil verdict was returned Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by a Lexington hairdresser who became paraplegic after a routine heart surgery. A Fayette Circuit Court jury assigned 31 percent of fault ? or $3,057,894.49 ? to the surgeon, Dr. Michael Sekela of Surgical Associates of Lexington. [...]

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