The New York Court of Appeals has overturned a $1.5 million medical malpractice and wrongful death verdict against a psychiatrist, won by the widow of a man who killed himself under the effects of prescribed antidepressants.
A state Supreme Court jury in Syracuse in 2012 found that Dr. William Beals’ prescription of antidepressants to Joe Mazella, without seeing him in person, led the popular Henninger High School teacher and longtime basketball coach to stab himself to death in his garage in 2009.
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