Segedy v. Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery of Akron, Inc.

Dickinson, Judge.

INTRODUCTION

{¶ 1} A jury determined that Dr. Robert Netzley proximately caused Christina Segedy’s death by taking too long to complete a surgical procedure and by transferring her from the operating room before she was stable. The jury’s verdict of $1,705,300 was reduced by the 22 percent comparative negligence assigned to Mrs. Segedy. Following the entry of judgment on the verdict, the trial court granted Netzley’s motion for a new trial based on juror confusion regarding the interrogatory and verdict forms and the jury’s reference to some excluded evidence regarding the…