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Jury awards widow more than $5 million

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The Associated Press

LOUISVILLE — A jury in Louisville has awarded the widow of a Frankfort man more than $5 million in his death following surgery to alleviate Parkinson’s disease symptoms.

Norman Gene Carroll, who was the brother of former Kentucky Gov. Julian Carroll, died Feb. 4, 2003, a week after surgery at Jewish Hospital.

The Courier-Journal reported the judgment for almost $5.1 million went against the surgical team. The hospital had earlier been dismissed from the lawsuit by Retha Carroll.

The judgment went against Dr. Atul Barry, Dr. Dante J. Morassutti, the estate of nurse Carolyn Lowe and Medical Center Anesthesiologists.

Retha Carroll’s attorney, Hans Poppe, said the surgery was elective and could have been stopped at any time when Carroll had trouble breathing.

The patient went into a coma and his wife removed life support about a week later.

An attorney for Lowe’s estate declined to talk about specifics of the case. Attorneys for the others did not return calls for comment.

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Ashlee Clark is the Richmond bureau reporter for the Herald-Leader. She has covered general assignments in Madison, Clark, Estill, Powell and Montgomery counties since she joined the newspaper in September 2007. Ashlee, a Louisville native, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she received degrees in journalism and sociology.

Shawntaye Hopkins is the Herald-Leader’s police reporter, covering local law enforcement, fire and EMS and breaking news. She joined the staff in September 2006 as the newspaper’s night police reporter. Shawntaye, a Louisville native, graduated from Western Kentucky University where she studied journalism and criminology. Shawntaye resides in Lexington.

Delano Massey is the Herald-Leader’s Regional Editor. He works closely with the paper’s bureau reporters and police and courts reporters to plan coverage, pursue breaking news and seek out enterprise stories. A Northeast Ohio native, Delano started his journalism career as a night cops reporter at the Belleville News-Democrat. In 2003, he made the trek to Lexington to take the reins as the newspaper’s daytime cops reporter. Delano, a graduate of the University of Akron, has won numerous awards for breaking news, spot news and investigative journalism.

Brandon Ortiz has covered courts, criminal justice and judicial politics for the Herald-Leader since April 2005. Ortiz was a leading contributor to the paper’s coverage of the investigation of the Comair Flight 5191 crash. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Ortiz has a journalism degree from Texas Christian University. He started at the Herald-Leader in September 2004.