Medical Malpractice Settlement
A jury in Westchester, New York has awarded a local family $7 million in a medical malpractice suit after a family member was misdiagnosed and died from severe brain damage. The woman even had several times to be correctly diagnosed with the pancreatic inflammation she had and was not.
The White Plains jury returned the verdict against the medical center to Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Colabella after a three-and-a-half-week trial and a day of deliberations. It awarded $3 million to Capwell’s three daughters, ages 7, 9 and 11 at the time of her death, and $4 million to her husband, Scott Capwell.
Livingston said Theresa Capwell was admitted to the medical center on Sept. 18, 2000, with symptoms indicating pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreatic gland, but doctors spent two weeks running tests for cancer.