A St. Louis Circuit Court jury awarded $2.25 million to a man who underwent back surgery and ended up losing nearly all the vision in one eye. The damage award for Evan Montgomery, 39, came after a chain of events that Montgomery said started with a misdiagnosis and a set of complications that set him on a perilous course involving life-threatening surgery. An attorney for two of the defendants argued that Montgomery's doctors did all they could under difficult circumstances.
Posted by Editor at December 5, 2003 11:22 AM