Jury in Texas Awards $21 Million to Family After Man Was Left in a Vegetative State Following a Routine Surgery

A Texas jury has awarded over $21 million to the family of a man who is currently in a vegetative state after what was supposed to be routine leg surgery.

The family of Carlos David Castro Rojas, who was 27 years old at the time of the procedure, will receive $21 million in restitution after a Dallas jury determined that a botched anesthesia procedure put Rojas into a vegetative state for the rest of his life, KDFW-TV reported.

Rojas, who immigrated to the U.S. from Venezuela, broke his leg in 2017 after falling off a ladder while at work hanging Christmas tree lights.

The Rojas family was represented by Bruce W. Steckler, of Steckler Wayne & Love PLLC.

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