A 58-year-old man who lost use of one of his shoulders due to an allegedly botched—and unnecessary—surgery has been awarded $4.2 million by a New Haven Superior Court jury.
In December 2008, Gregory Leigh, a laborer at the PermaTreat Corp. in Durham and a resident of Wallingford, sought medical care for a swollen lymph node on the left side of his neck. His doctor, Daniel Schwartz, scheduled him for immediate surgery to remove the lymph node. But, according to the plaintiff’s attorney, Leigh didn’t need surgery. Sean McElligott, an attorney at Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, said that a simple test would have revealed that Leigh had a mild Bartonellosis bacterial infection, also known as cat scratch disease or cat scratch fever.
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