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| Malpractice
Case settles for $900,000.00 |
On
January 19, 2001, Walter H. Emroch and Thomas J. McNally won
a $900,000 verdict in what is believed to be the largest medical
malpractice verdict ever awarded in the City of Fredericksburg
Circuit Court. The Honorable J. W. Scott, Jr. presided over
the four day jury trial. The plaintiff, a DEA agent, sustained
a complicated stress fracture of the right femur and was sent
to Mary Washington Hospital where he came under the care of
the defendant, Clara Belle Wheeler, M. D. During the surgical
repair of the plaintiff's leg, the leg was placed in traction
for over five hours where the standard of care allows for two
and one-half hours of continuous traction. Due to excessive
use of traction, the plaintiff sustained permanent nerve damage
affecting both legs and permanent sexual dysfunction. The jury
deliberated two hours before returning their verdict.
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