Bell v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center

Harper, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, James A. Bell, Administrator of the Estate of Vivian Bell, instituted this wrongful death action in the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County on March 31, 1989. Mt. Sinai Medical Center (“Mt. Sinai”), Thomas Santoscoy, M.D., and Terry King, M.D., were named as defendants. Appellant alleged that Drs. Santoscoy and King performed negligently during Mrs. Bell’s coronary bypass surgery at Mt. Sinai, and thereby proximately caused her death.

The case proceeded to trial on March 5, 1991, and the jury began deliberations on March 14, 1991. On March 19,…