A Philadelphia jury has awarded $1.75 million to the estate of a 64-year-old woman who died after doctors at Girard Medical Center reintroduced liquid and solid foods into her diet despite strict orders to withhold oral feedings and failed to take appropriate action once her condition worsened.
On July 1, following a three-week trial, a unanimous 12-member jury took only two hours to deliberate before handing down its verdict in Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge James Murray Lynn’s courtroom.
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