Frilot attorneys Peter E. Sperling and John B.Cazale obtained a defense verdict in a medical malpractice jury trial in the 19th Judicial District Court held January 5-8,2009. In Norwood v. Medina, plaintiffs were the 10 surviving childen of a patient who died as the result of an ischemic stroke. Plaintiffs contended that the defendant internal medicine specialist failed to timely and appropriately treat the stroke. The Baton Rouge jury found that the defendant did not breach the applicable standard of care in his treatment of the decedent.

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