$4,000,000 awarded to a 43 year old woman who had her gall bladder removed with the use of a laparoscope. The surgeon performing the operation did not tell the patient that it was the surgeon's first laparoscopic operation upon a human being until the patient was about to be wheeled into the operating room. During the operation the surgeon mistakenly cut the common hepatic duct and mistakenly clamped the common bile duct. The surgeon then discharged the patient from the hospital while she was deathly ill. The patient has since had three major operations to reconstruct her bile ducts and six minor procedures to open blockages. She will need future surgery for hernias.
$2,000,000 awarded to a 12 year old child whose vocal cords were damaged in an operation to remove a cyst from the throat. The child has been left with a permanent hoarseness.
$2,750,000 awarded to a girl with a withered arm caused by excessive force applied by the obstetrician at birth.