Jury awards $44M to patient in Philadelphia medical malpractice lawsuit

A Philadelphia jury awarded to $44.1 million a women who suffered a brain hemorrhage while being treated at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, according to a report in The Legal Intelligencer. The jury, according to the report, found the hospital 65 percent liable and the attending doctor 35 percent liable for failing to recognize Andrea Tate’s adverse reaction to heparin, an anticoagulant medication, which she received after being treated for a benign tumor on tissue covering her…
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