WHAT'S A UTERUS WORTH?
In Norton v. Nguyen, Jamie Lee Norton and her husband filed a medical malpractice case against Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home and Patricia Nguyen, a hospital obstetrician, for failing to properly diagnose (prior to discharge) that Jamie Lee was suffering from an infection.
Jamie Lee had given birth to a child at the Hospital, and Nguyen performed the delivery. The day after her release, Jamie Lee was readmitted with a severe streptococcal infection which required the removal of her reproductive organs.
After a jury trial, Jamie Lee was awarded $1 million for past pain and suffering and $4 million for 57 years of future damages. Her husband, Douglas, received $250,000 for past pain and suffering and $500,000 for future damages. When the Nortons defendants contested the verdict, the Fulton County Supreme Court reduced Jamie Lee's future-damage component from $4 million to $2 million and Douglas's $500,000 award to $250,000. Of course, an appeal ensued.
The Appellate Division, Third Department, modified the outcome a bit further. Since Douglas failed to provide "testimony that his marital relations had been affected by his wife's injuries," he was awarded only $100,000 for past pain and suffering and $100,000 for future pain and suffering.
Not a very productive appeal.
To download a copy of the Appellate Division's decision, please use this link: Norton v. Nguyen
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My uteros is worth over a BILLION dollars.
Posted by: ALesbo | June 19, 2008 12:38 AM
How about taking your billion dollar [DELETED] and learning how to spell?
Posted by: Sy Mann | June 19, 2008 1:42 PM
How about I take my [DELETED] and shove it up your [DELETED]?
Posted by: ALesbo | June 19, 2008 6:05 PM
I think you should get your #$#@$#$ facts straight before you put peoples lifes on the internet I did not apeal anything them jerks did. I sugggest you change your information before I contact my lawyer and who ever is responsible for making me look greedy over my pain that nobody but me understands gets sued for putting inacurate information for the whole world to see. The only thing i am guilty of is thinking I could trust my physicians. Also yes my marriage was drasticly affected by this and my husband has been there with me loving me even through all the changes that come my way he also has the guilt of knowing that he signed the consents for them to save my life andat the same time he had to sign away our life that we had planned there would be no more babies like we had planned I was in the hospital for about 6 weeks so do not make it sound like it was a little thing because it was not.
Posted by: jamie Norton | January 3, 2009 6:31 PM
EDITOR'S NOTE:
While we have not verified whether the preceding entry was made by a party to the case, we have corrected an error which appeared in the original post.
Onward!
Posted by: Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
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January 3, 2009 10:28 PM