A woman who claimed she lost sight in one eye because of errors by anesthesiologists and an ophthalmologist accepted $1.2 million on Dec. 2 to settle her suit, Santiago v. Trotta .

Natividad Santiago of Miami flinched during cataract surgery at Meadowlands Hospital on Oct. 24 and a needle pierced her left eye, causing her to go blind in that eye, according to a suit in Hudson County filed by Adam Slater of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman in Roseland.

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