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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - Westchester County

A jury awarded more than $27 million to a woman who claimed that an undiagnosed spinal tumor has robbed her of most of her ability to walk. Shania-Gay Ffrench developed back pain and headaches in 2000. Doctors initially blamed scoliosis or uterine fibroids, so some 17 months passed before the tumor was detected. It could not be removed until 2007, by which time it had caused damage that has rendered Ffrench, now 30, largely wheelchair-bound. Ffrench sued her treating doctors, but, by the time the case reached the jury, her primary physician, Dr. Keith Edwards, was the only remaining defendant. The jury found that Edwards bore 30 percent of the blame. It awarded damages of $47.95 million, but Edwards' obligation will total $27.3 million.

Ffrench v. Montefiore Medical Center

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