The family of a man who died after a vein implant designed to stop blood clots migrated to his heart and caused fatal cardiac arrest has won a $3.2 million verdict against a Montgomery County hospital.

A Montgomery County jury handed up the verdict Sept. 21, finding three doctors and Mercy Suburban Hospital negligent in their care of Ernest Lucchesi, who was refereeing a lacrosse game when he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital.

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