A Cobb County jury delivered a post-apportionment award of $850,000 to the family of a bed-bound hospice patient whose arm was fractured and left untreated until one of her sons called 911 two days later. Betty Jean Alexander, 78, died nine days after her injury from Alzheimer’s dementia.

But apparent confusion by jurors who deemed one co-defendant partly at fault for Betty Jean Alexander’s injury but did not assign her any damages almost scuttled the verdict.

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