The widow of a man who died after an unsuccessful attempt to insert a stent into his aorta was awarded more than $1.5 million by a Henry County jury last month, but Georgia’s rules allowing juries to apportion liability mean that the woman will collect only $470,000 of the verdict.
The jury found the surgeon who performed the procedure and the hospital where it occurred responsible for most of the verdict, but those parties settled with the widow on the eve of the trial.
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