New Jersey Supreme Court Vacates a $24.3 Million Jury Award Against a Hospital

The New Jersey Supreme Court vacated a $24.3 million award to a group of neurosurgeons over their claim that The Valley Hospital was acting in bad faith and didn’t deal fairly when it signed an exclusive agreement with a competing surgical group.

In a unanimous opinion issued April 16 in the case of Comprehensive Neurosurgical PC v. The Valley Hospital, the state high court reversed the ruling, saying that the jury was incorrectly instructed by the trial judge.

The plaintiff, Comprehensive Surgery filed suit against Valley in 2016 in Bergen County Superior Court. The North Jersey-based group consists of 11 neurosurgeons and their practice, New Jersey Brain and Spine Center.

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