Personal Injury Law

Jury Awards $1.95 Mil. In Post-Surgery Death

By Edward Bills

A Virginia jury has awarded $1.95 million in a lawsuit over the death of a woman less than two days after she received plastic surgery. The woman was sent home an hour after her July 2008 surgery even though she was having respiratory problems, dizziness and fever, the lawsuit claims. She died the next day of aspiration pneumonia. The suit accused the physician and his staff of completely ignoring the woman and her symptoms, which resulted in her death.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).