Mississippi Federal Judge Awards $3.1 Million For Man’s Botched Abscess Procedure

Mealey's (May 24, 2020, 7:31 PM EDT) -- JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi federal judge awarded a man and his wife more than $3.1 million in economic damages on May 13 for injuries that resulted when a physician at a military hospital used a hollow needle to drain an abscess in the man’s chest and accidentally lacerated his lung and heart (Charles Brown, et al. v. United States, No. 17-551, S.D. Miss.)....