“Me too!”: A jackpot jury award causes another to up their request for damages

“If a Portsmouth man can win $800,000 in damages because someone left a towel inside him after a surgery three years ago, then a 69-year-old Courtland woman who endured the same thing might deserve an equal award . . .

. . . BrownÂ’s medical malpractice lawsuit, expected to be heard by a jury later this summer, originally asked Dr. Ray T. Ramirez, his employer, and Obici Hospital in Suffolk, where the surgery took place, to pay her $150,000 .

After the verdict in the Portsmouth case last year – in which a judge reduced the juryÂ’s $1.2 million award to $800,000 – Brown and her attorney, Joseph J. Perez , increased their request for damages to $800,000.”