A doctor and his practice agreed last Monday to pay $3.9 million to a patient whose eye was damaged during sinus surgery, according to the plaintiff’s lawyer in the Passaic County suit, Kania v. Sreepada.
Dr. Gangadhar Sreepada of the White Plains, N.Y., office of ENT and Allergy Associates was performing endoscopic surgery to clean out a sinus with a camera-guided instrument at Chilton Hospital in Pompton Plains on April 25, 2006, when the instrument strayed into the right eye orbit of patient Maria Kania, says Kania’s lawyer, Adam Slater of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman in Roseland.
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