Man awarded $3M in malpractice suit
A Lake County Superior Court jury deliberated nearly nine hours before awarding Steven Sangster $3 million in a medical malpractice suit. Sangster, 30, filed against orthopedic surgeon Dr. Richard Oni and anesthesiologist Dr. James Kim whose medical actions left Sangster with brain damage. After Judge Diane Kavadias Schneider read the verdict, Sangster's sister and legal guardian, broke down into tears and hugged the family's attorney, John Kopack, of Kopack & Associates in Merrillville. "Steven ... was in court and smiled at me after the verdict was read," Kopack said in a release. "He didn't fully understand what had happened, but I hope he knows that for once in his life, he got a fair shake from fate and that it was a good jury that did it for him." After four days of testimony and a day of deliberations, the seven-member jury found the physicians negligent.
