Jury Awards $22M After Canceled CT Scan Leads to Missed Spinal Injury

A Georgia jury awarded $22M to the widow of a man whose cervical fractures and epidural hematoma were missed after a CT scan was canceled because he couldn’t lie still. The radiologist was among the defendants.

• The $22M verdict includes $6M for wrongful death, $10M to the estate, and $6M for loss of consortium.
• The patient, a 71-year-old truck driver, became paraplegic after the missed diagnosis and later died from complications.
• The defense argued the fractures may not have resulted from the original car accident and could have occurred spontaneously or during handling.

Primary court documents and full expert testimony not reviewed; based on press reports.

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