Jury awards $30M in malpractice suit against surgeon, DCH
A Tuscaloosa County jury has awarded what could be a record $30 million verdict to the family of a murder victim who waited hours to see a surgeon at DCH Regional Medical Center.
The family of homicide victim Johnny Sledge won the medical malpractice suit against DCH Healthcare Authority and other health care providers after a trial before Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge James Roberts that began May 6.
Sledge, 24, was shot when a gunfight broke out near Ash Street in west Tuscaloosa on Dec. 27, 2013. He was rushed to the hospital, but wasn’t seen by on-call surgeon Dr. Bradley Bilton, who was performing an elective surgery at the time.
Family members filed the civil lawsuit the following year, represented by attorneys David Marsh, Derrick Mills and Jane Mauzy of Birmingham firm Marsh Rickard & Bryan along with Tuscaloosa attorney Paul Patterson of Patterson Comer Law Firm.
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