Davis v. Wooster Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, Inc.

Dickinson, Judge.

INTRODUCTION

{¶ 1} Barbara Davis was 49 years old when she died following back surgery on July 28, 2004. Her husband, Leroy Davis, filed a wrongful-death action against her orthopaedic surgeon, Michael S. Knapic, M.D. and his practice group, Wooster Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, Inc. Mr. Davis alleged that Dr. Knapic had negligently performed a lumbar microdiscectomy by completely severing Mrs. Davis’s left common iliac artery and lacerating her iliac vein during the procedure and failing to timely diagnose and treat the medical condition that arose thereafter. At trial, the…