In Glendale, California, the jury rendered a defense verdict in the malpractice trial over alleged negligence and liability in John Ritter's death. Jurors, who voted 9 to 3 against liability, said they were torn “between sympathy for Ritter's wife and children and their conviction that the doctors were blameless."
The family of John Ritter has sued Burbank's Providence St. Joseph Medical Center and the emergency room physicians charging failure to diagnose and treat the late actor’s rare aortic dissection in timely fashion. Ritter’s family had already received $14 million in settlements and was seeking another $67 million from the emergency room physicians who did not participate in the settlement. This in a state with a $250,000 cap on damages for pain and suffering. That 67 mil is the amount the experts projected Ritter would earn over the remaining course of his career.
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