Minnesota Student Rejects a Reduced $10 Million Malpractice Award, Opts for a New Trial

A St. Cloud State University college student who won a landmark medical malpractice case last year has rejected a judge’s decision to cut his jury award from $110 million to $10 million and will seek a new trial.

In what was by far the largest award of its kind in Minnesota, a Minneapolis federal jury in May 2022 granted Anuj Thapa $111.3 million in damages, including $110 million for pain and suffering.

Calling the $110 million award “shockingly excessive,” federal Judge Tony Leung ruled in October that Thapa must accept a $10 million award for pain and suffering or the case would be retried.

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