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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Courts - Result in on "Mistrial declared in Notre Dame coach's malpractice case"
Updating this ILB entry from July 17, the AP is reporting this afternoon:
BOSTON (AP) -- A jury on Tuesday found against Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis in his medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors he claimed botched his care after he had gastric bypass surgery five years ago.The jury deliberated almost three hours before finding Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons Charles Ferguson and Richard Hodin were not negligent.
Weis, 51, who won three Super Bowls as offensive coordinator for the New England Patriots, accused the surgeons of negligence for allowing him to bleed internally for 30 hours before performing a second surgery to correct the complication.
Weis became gravely ill after the 2002 surgery and nearly died. He testified he still has numbness and pain in his feet and sometimes has to use a motorized cart. Seated next to the surgeons on the front row of a courtroom bench, he was stoic as the verdict was read and left the courtroom without comment. * * *
This was the second time the case had gone to trial. The first ended in a mistrial in February afterFerguson and Hodin rushed to the aid of a juror who collapsed in the courtroom.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 24, 2007 07:31 PM
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