$20 million awarded for '04 surgery error Jury says hospital must pay LR family
By JOHN LYNCH ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Publication: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock)
Date: Saturday, September 25 201
Six years after a surgeon cut out the wrong part of their 15-year-old son's brain in an operation featured on the front page of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Pamela and Kenny Metheny said their youngest child's healing really began Friday. That's when a Pulaski County jury awarded the family a $20 million judgment after finding that Arkansas Children's Hospital was negligent for the surgery.


