A Virginia jury awarded more than $3.4 million to the estate of a young man who died when complications arose during an effort to remove a surgical band around his stomach that had become displaced.

“It’s always interesting to try a case in somebody else’s backyard,” said one of the winning lawyers, William Atkins of Atlanta’s Edmond, Lindsay & Atkins.

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