Two Philadelphia juries have awarded $35 million to victims of two surgeries that lawyers claimed went horribly wrong. One jury ordered a Philadelphia surgeon to pay $15 million to the sister of talk-show host Kelly Ripa for failing to properly repair her broken ankle. Linda Ripa, 30, was an aspiring model and actress when she was severely injured while eight-months pregnant in a 1999 car accident. A lawyer for Frankford Hospital, where the surgery was performed, called the judgment excessive and planned to appeal.
Posted by Editor at February 3, 2004 04:35 AM