Articles - Medical Malpractice
Survivors of cancer victim get $215,000 ::
(11 28, 2005)
Wichita Eagle, The (KS)
August 12, 2003
Section: LOCAL & STATE
Edition: main
Page: 6B
HURST LAVIANA, The Wichita Eagle
A Sedgwick County jury has awarded more than $215,000 in damages to the survivors of a Wichita truck driver who died after his cancer went undetected.
Wichita lawyer Brad Prochaska said the jury found that physician Craig Parman was 30 percent to blame for the death of Edwin Main, who died in October 2001 at age 63.
The jury set the total damages in the case at $716,000, and Main's survivors will collect 30 percent of the total from the doctor's insurance company. The jury said another doctor who was not named in the lawsuit was 40 percent to blame for Main's death, and Main was 30 percent responsible.
Wichita lawyer Larry Shoal, who represented Parman, did not return a phone call to his office.
Prochaska said Main's cancer was diagnosed in April 2000, 22 months after he first went in for a checkup.
"With the 22-month delay, it went from curable to incurable," Prochaska said.
The verdict was announced Friday at the conclusion of a nine-day trial. Prochaska said the evidence included a videotaped statement that Main made seven days before his death.
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