ALLENTOWN - A Lehigh County jury has awarded more than $23 million to a woman who lost parts of both legs to infection almost three years ago.
Attorneys for the 55-year-old Lehighton woman argued that a home-care nurse failed to report a bacterial infection in the feeding catheter of the patient, who was being treated for complications from Crohn's disease, and that the delay resulted in a near-fatal bloodstream infection in October 2008. A Lehigh County jury on Friday found the nurse and St. Luke's Miners Memorial Home Care liable, awarding $23.1 million for medical expenses, lost earnings, and pain and suffering.
