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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Legal Newsline) - The children of a man who died after what may have been unnecessary prostate surgery were entitled to punitive damages, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled, even though a subsequent change in the law has put them out of reach in such cases.
Meanwhile, a dissenting judge said the $300,000 in punitive damages weren’t merited even under then-existing law since the plaintiffs proved only negligence, not intentional wrongdoing.
Roosevelt Rhoden was in his late seventies and suffering from a variety of chronic conditions including obesity, diabetes and hypertension as well as mild prostate disease when Dr. Linza Killion allegedly told him he needed prostate surgery or he would have to self-administer catheters for the rest of his life. He reported severe abdominal pain after surgery, grew gradually sicker and eventually died.
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