$19.8M Awarded for 'Botched' Surgery

$19.8M awarded for 'botched' surgery

An Olmsted County jury awarded $19.8 million to an Iowa mother who suffered abdominal disfigurement and ongoing pain after a "botched" surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, a law firm announced Wednesday.

Iowa woman awarded nearly $20 million in Mayo Clinic botched surgery case « KJAN | Radio Atlantic, IA – AM 1220

FORT DODGE, Iowa (KCCI) – A Fort Dodge woman has been awarded nearly $20 million in damages following a malpractice lawsuit against the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, KCCI reports. Linette Nelson sued the medical facility after complications from surgeries performed in 2018 to treat her ulcerative colitis. The initial treatment plan involved three operations to rebuild her lower digestive tract. Nelson claimed her surgeon left 6 centimeters of diseas…