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Florida family to get $14 million in malpractice verdict
Miami Herald, September 18, 2009
A Hollywood, FL, family won a $14 million medical-malpractice verdict against a doctor who accidentally punctured the man's artery during surgery following his stroke, leaving the man paralyzed and bedridden. Though it awarded the family $14 million, the jury found no negligence by the surgeon in the case.
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