COLORADO SPRINGS - An El Paso County jury has awarded $10 million in damages to a nurse who was injured on the job at Penrose Hospital but denied speedy medical care. A.J. Silvia, 47, who now lives in Los Angeles, suffered a herniated disc in his lower back while moving a patient Feb. 12, 1996. Although Penrose's doctors said that the longer he waited for surgery, the worse the risk, Silvia was not operated on for 80 days.
Posted by Editor at December 5, 2003 11:29 AM