The family of a Hollywood man has been awarded a $14 million medical malpractice verdict against a doctor who accidentally punctured the man’s artery during surgery, leaving the man paralyzed and bedridden.

Francis Ziadie was 46 when he first went to Memorial Regional Hospital with slurred speech and dizziness following a stroke. His symptoms subsided when doctors gave him drugs to remove the blood clot that had caused the stroke. According to Crane Johnstone, attorney for the Ziadie family, says that radiologist Dr. Hoang Dinh Doung then surgically inserted a mesh stent to prop open Ziadie’s carotid artery to improve blood flow. But Doung punctured a blood vessel causing heavy bleeding into Ziadie’s brain. Ziadie now needs constant care from his elderly mother.

The jury found Doung negligent, but determined that the operating surgeon, Dr. David Feldbaum, was not responsible for Ziadie’s death.

If you or someone you know has been injured by medical malpractice please contact the Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams at 215-329-3511.