Iowa man awarded $27M in UnityPoint malpractice case
Updated: 3:56 PM CST Nov 22, 2022
THREATENING INJURIES. A POLK COUNTY JURY AWARDED $27 MILLION TO A MAN AFTER HIS CASE OF MENINGITIS WAS MISDIAGNOSED AS THE FLU. ATTORNEYS FOR 47 YEAR OLD JOSEPH DUDLEY SAY HE CAME AT A UNITYPOINT URGENT CARE CLINIC IN 2017 WITH A HIGH FEVER. WELL, HE WAS SENT HOME WITH DIRECTIONS TO TAKE ANTI-FLU MEDICATION. BUT DUDLEY WAS LATER HOSPITALIZED WITH MENINGITIS. HE HAD TO BE PUT IN A MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA THAT LEFT DEADLY WITH BRAIN DAMAGE. THIS WEEK, A PAUL COUNTY JURY
Iowa man awarded $27M in UnityPoint malpractice case
Updated: 3:56 PM CST Nov 22, 2022
A Polk County jury awarded $27 million to a person after his case of meningitis was misdiagnosed because the flu. Attorneys for 47-year-old Joseph Dudley stated he got here into UnityPoint Health pressing care clinic in 2017 with a excessive fever. He was despatched dwelling with instructions to take flu medicine. But Dudley was later hospitalized with meningitis and needed to be put in a medically induced coma that left Dudley with mind harm. This week a Polk County jury discovered UnityPoint negligent within the case.
A Polk County jury awarded $27 million to a person after his case of meningitis was misdiagnosed because the flu.
Attorneys for 47-year-old Joseph Dudley stated he got here into UnityPoint Health pressing care clinic in 2017 with a excessive fever.
He was despatched dwelling with instructions to take flu medicine. But Dudley was later hospitalized with meningitis and needed to be put in a medically induced coma that left Dudley with mind harm.
This week a Polk County jury discovered UnityPoint negligent within the case.