Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases
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    5/27/2008
    James R. Carroll, Jr., Esquire
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    Jury Awards $20.5 Million for Fatal Liposuction

    From Law.com:

    A Philadelphia jury awarded a $20.5 million verdict Friday to the parents of an 18-year-old college student who allegedly died from a liposuction procedure gone wrong.

    Of the $20.5 million award, $15 million was in punitive damages.

    The jury returned the verdict seven years to the day of the elective liposuction for Amy Fledderman, 18, sought for her chin, abdomen and flanks with plastic surgeon Dr. Richard P. Glunk on May 23, 2001, according to court papers.

    Amy Fledderman's parents, Daniel H. and Colleen M. Fledderman, sobbed as the 12-member jury returned a unanimous verdict against Glunk and nurse anesthetist Edward DeStefano late Friday morning.

    In the Fledderman v. Glunk wrongful death and survival action, the jury awarded $15 million in punitive damages; $3.5 million under the Survival Act; $2 million for Glunk allegedly negligently inflicting emotional distress on Colleen Fledderman; $20,000 under the Wrongful Death Act; and $5,000 for Glunk's alleged failure to obtain Amy Fledderman's informed consent.

    Plaintiffs attorney Slade H. McLaughlin of The Beasley Firm said in an e-mail that the $15 million in punitive damages and $5.525 million in compensatory damages is within the 9-to-1 punitive damages cap ratio required by the U.S Supreme Court decision in Campbell v. State Farm. He also noted that the wrongful death damages are almost exactly equal to Fledderman's funeral costs, and the informed-consent damages were the costs of her surgery.

    See the whole story here.
    Labels: medical malpractice verdict


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