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Ohio Supreme Court overturns state's largest medical malpractice awardFrom: Dean Huffman . (dean@thehuffpeople.net)Mon Oct 29 14:49:14 2007
.. Ohio Supreme Court overturns state's largest medical malpractice award due to attorney conduct. The AP (10/27) reported that on Thursday, "The Ohio Supreme Court threw out a record $30 million verdict won by a brain-damaged man, citing his Detroit-area attorney for inappropriate theatrics in court." The case involved a 20-year-old Cleveland man, who claimed that "the now-defunct Mount Sinai Medical Center and a doctor had been negligent in delaying [his] delivery while his mother...waited two hours for an emergency Caesarean section," causing the cerebral palsy from which he now suffers. The justices' opinion determined that the jury's verdict in favor of the plaintiff, the state's highest medical malpractice award, was a result of attorney Geoffrey Fieger's behavior. They "criticized Fieger for discourtesy, accusing witnesses of lying, and for his frequent interruptions of opposing lawyers," and "cited [him] for misstating evidence, wrongfully accusing defendants of covering up evidence, and inappropriately injecting race and poverty into the trial."
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