A Montgomery County jury has handed up a verdict awarding $5 million to the family of an 88-year-old man who died after a feeding tube was improperly inserted into his lung, filling it with feeding solution.
In Tong-Summerford v. Abington Memorial Hospital, the jury on May 13 assigned $3.5 million in Survival Act damages and $1.5 million for the wrongful death of Marvin Summerford, who died in December 2008 while he was a patient at Abington Memorial Hospital. The hospital was apportioned 25 percent of the verdict, while Dr. Kristin Crisci, the radiologist who incorrectly read an X-ray as showing the feeding tube ending in Summerford’s stomach, was apportioned 75 percent of the total.
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