A Philadelphia jury returned a $2.5 million verdict against the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and other defendants in a wrongful death suit, finding the medical team negligent in failing to properly treat an elderly patient following hip surgery, which led to a lower left extremity deep vein thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism.
The case, Koesterer v. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, was tried for three days before Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Gwendolyn N. Bright, with the suit stemming from the death of Virginia Koesterer, after she suffered a massive venous thromboembolism (VTE).
