Jury awards $20 million to family of a man with sleep apnea who got a fatal dose of opioid painkillers
A Palm Beach County jury has awarded $20 million to the family of a Boca Raton man who was being treated with painkillers by a doctor who failed to ask whether the patient suffered from sleep apnea. Josh Hamby, 54, of Boca Raton, was given a 2-milligram dose of Dilaudid, a brand name for the prescription drug hydromorphone, to treat the pain caused by his pancreatitis. While being treated ...
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