Woman Awarded $2.27 Million For Pennsylvania Doctor’s Excessive Pain Prescriptions

Mealey's (May 21, 2019, 9:05 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania jury concluded that a former physician prescribed excessively high doses of opioids to manage a woman’s foot pain and awarded her $2,274,000 on May 3 (Yvonne Rivera v. Roxborough Memorial Hospital, et al., No. 1407-01548, Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Co.)....