Madison County Jury Rules For Doctors In Med Mal Case; Plaintiff Had Sought $2 Million
From the Madison County Record
A Madison County jury returned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit on Friday, concluding that Drs. Tibor Kopjas and Michael Mandis did not violate standards of care in treating a patient’s MRSA infection from an IV site.
The jury, consisting of eight women and four men, reached their decision after deliberating just over an hour on the fifth day of trial in Circuit Judge William Mudge’s court.
Plaintiff Fred Simon’s daughter Stacey Luber sued Kopjas, Mandis, Anderson Hospital and others in 2006 claiming the defendants failed to timely and properly diagnose and treat Simon for bacterial sepsis. Simon later died on Aug. 17, 2005. According to the court record, cause of death was pneumonia.
Only Kopjas and Mandis remained as defendants at trial. Kopjas was Simon’s primary care physician. Mandis made rounds at the hospital for Kopjas during the decedent’s hospitalization.
Plaintiff attorney Colleen Jones of St. Louis began closing arguments on Friday morning. She established that while Simon, 76, did suffer “some underlying problems,” such as diabetes and kidney failure, he was a relatively active man. She added that experts suspected he had roughly 10 more years in life expectancy.
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From the Madison County Record
A Madison County jury returned a defense verdict in a medical malpractice lawsuit on Friday, concluding that Drs. Tibor Kopjas and Michael Mandis did not violate standards of care in treating a patient’s MRSA infection from an IV site.
The jury, consisting of eight women and four men, reached their decision after deliberating just over an hour on the fifth day of trial in Circuit Judge William Mudge’s court.
Plaintiff Fred Simon’s daughter Stacey Luber sued Kopjas, Mandis, Anderson Hospital and others in 2006 claiming the defendants failed to timely and properly diagnose and treat Simon for bacterial sepsis. Simon later died on Aug. 17, 2005. According to the court record, cause of death was pneumonia.
Only Kopjas and Mandis remained as defendants at trial. Kopjas was Simon’s primary care physician. Mandis made rounds at the hospital for Kopjas during the decedent’s hospitalization.
Plaintiff attorney Colleen Jones of St. Louis began closing arguments on Friday morning. She established that while Simon, 76, did suffer “some underlying problems,” such as diabetes and kidney failure, he was a relatively active man. She added that experts suspected he had roughly 10 more years in life expectancy.
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