TX Jury Awards Man $9.2 Million After Botched Surgery Leaves Him Paralyzed

 The trial lawyers of the Law Offices of Laird & McCloskey secured a unanimous $9,245,429 verdict on behalf of a 52-year-old patient left a paraplegic following a botched 2017 surgery.

The jury in Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey’s court heard testimony that the actions and negligence of surgeon Nikhil Patel, an employee of Bianco Brain and Spine, PLLC, led directly to the post-operative paralysis of Larry Jones. The patient underwent the procedure in an effort to ease chronic lower back pain.

“Dr. Patel was warned several times by a monitoring physician during the surgery that Mr. Jones was showing signs of neurological distress,” said Mr. Jones’ attorney Seth McCloskey of the Law Offices of Laird & McCloskey. “Dr. Patel chose to ignore those warnings and his patient, a man who just wanted some relief from suffering, now has to learn to live with an irreversible outcome that was completely preventable.”

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