Jury awards $670K for botched colonoscopy 

Posted: 7:00 pm Sun, November 15, 2009
By Danny Jacobs
Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer

A Baltimore jury has awarded more than $670,000 to a man who required emergency surgery to remove a portion of his colon after suffering complications from a routine colonoscopy. The verdict, decided by a jury of three men and three women this month, granted plaintiff Arvia Johnson $650,000 in non-economic damages, an amount that falls below ...