Columbus, GA Woman Wins $26M Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Against St. Francis Hospital
Imagine visiting your doctor for a routine procedure and leaving marred or disabled. Unfortunately for one woman in Columbus, Georgia, something like this happened when she visited St. Francis Hospital for a “common neck surgery that ended up leaving her disabled.” As a result of the botched surgery, the woman, Sandra Williams, “filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against St. Francis Hospital for the end result of her neck surgery.” Fortunately for her, a jury ruled in her favor and decided that “St. Francis and its surgeons were 100 percent at fault.” As a result, St. Francis must now pay Williams $26 million dollars. So what happened?