Missed Cancer Diagnosis Leads to $8.5 Million Verdict in Georgia

A Georgia jury’s failure to award wrongful death damages didn’t require reversal of an $8.5 million award against health-care providers who failed to timely diagnose and treat a patient’s cancer.

The defendants asked a state appeals court to set aside the verdict due to its inconsistency in awarding funeral expenses—which are based on the fact of death—but no wrongful death damages.

The form on which the jury returned its verdict may have been ambiguous, but it didn’t unequivocally mean that the jury found in favor of the defendants on the wrongful death claim, the Georgia Court of Appeals said Wednesday ...