A jury in Virginia has entered a $3.5 million verdict in favor of Donita Franklin who sued her foot doctor, podiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Feeny, over a 2003 surgery that she says caused incurable chronic pain (crps) and led to the amputation of the front of her right foot.
The pain Franklin suffered became a permanent condition that didn't go away even after she had the front of her right foot amputated, Fennell said. Franklin, who used to be a factory worker, now lives on disability and uses a wheelchair or crutches to get around. "She used to be very active before this" and liked to ride horses, the lawyer said. "Now she can't do anything." Steven Feeny, Jennifer Feeny's husband and office manager, said Monday that he and his wife could have settled the suit but felt that "she did nothing wrong and she just had to have her day in court."
Source: Mike Alle, Roanoke Times (VA) [6/3/08]
