Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Mingo County Woman Awarded $ 300,000 In Medical Malpractice Case.
A Mingo County woman was awarded $ 300,000 by a Pike County jury in a medical malpractice case.
According to attorney Hootie Smith, his client Rhonda Hall of Varney, West Virginia went to Dr. Mary Lyn Lu on April 25th, 2006 to have a mole removed from her lip. The doctor told Hall that she had a cancerous liason on the side of her nose. Smith said that the doctor, without performing a biopsy, removed the liason two days later and she also failed to remove the mole. Hall was left with a with a permament scar.
As it turned out the liason was not cancerous. It took the jury two hours to reach a verdict.
According to attorney Hootie Smith, his client Rhonda Hall of Varney, West Virginia went to Dr. Mary Lyn Lu on April 25th, 2006 to have a mole removed from her lip. The doctor told Hall that she had a cancerous liason on the side of her nose. Smith said that the doctor, without performing a biopsy, removed the liason two days later and she also failed to remove the mole. Hall was left with a with a permament scar.
As it turned out the liason was not cancerous. It took the jury two hours to reach a verdict.
# posted by Joe Kinzer @ 6:18 PM 
