HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - A Connecticut appeals court upheld a multimillion-dollar verdict for a man who argued a nurse with improper enema technique tore a hole in his rectum, leading to a severe infection and multiple hospitalizations.
A Connecticut appeals court on Friday refused a bid from Bristol Hospital Inc. to overturn a $3.2 million verdict finding that one of its nurses tore a man's rectum through negligence while administering an enema, finding that the jury had heard enough evidence to conclude that the nurse was at fault.