Hospital Group Pays $850,000.00 After Failing To Treat High Cholesterol
Case Summary:
Amount: $850,000Court: Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas
Date: October 2004
Plaintiff's Counsel: Ellen M. McCarthy, Andrew R. Young
Description: Wrongful Death
Wrongful Death of a husband and father, 42 years old, as the result of a heart attack. The cause of death was determined to be severe coronary artery disease with occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Plaintiff contends that the defendants failed to properly evaluate and treat decedent's chronic hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol) and other risk factors for coronary artery disease while decedent was a patient and treating regularly with the defendants between 1993 and 2000. Defense counsel contended that plaintiff decedent was noncompliant with his follow-up, treatment, diet and use of tobacco products.
