{"id":2471,"date":"2024-09-03T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/43-5m-med-mal-verdict-for-ex-eagles-team-captain-affirmed-in-appellate-court\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:21:02","slug":"43-5m-med-mal-verdict-for-ex-eagles-team-captain-affirmed-in-appellate-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/43-5m-med-mal-verdict-for-ex-eagles-team-captain-affirmed-in-appellate-court\/","title":{"rendered":"$43.5M Med-Mal Verdict For Ex-Eagles Team Captain Affirmed in Appellate Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A Philadelphia jury\u2019s decision to award more than $43.5 million to a former Eagles player is set to stand, despite efforts from a defendant medical care provider who claimed the trial judge improperly allowed the plaintiff to argue medical records had been \u201caltered\u201d as part of a \u201ccover-up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 30, a unanimous three-judge Pennsylvania Superior Court panel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A14008-24m.pdf?cb=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rejected efforts<\/a> by Reconstructive Orthopaedic Associates (ROA) to overturn the verdict awarded to former football player Christopher Maragos in February 2023 over allegations that mistreatment of a knee injury resulted in his career ending prematurely.\u00a0Writing for the panel in\u00a0<em>Maragos v. Bradley<\/em>, Judge Anne Lazarus wholly adopted the trial court\u2019s reasoning in rejecting\u00a0ROA\u2019s arguments for why the verdict needed to be overturned.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia jury\u2019s decision to award more than $43.5 million to a former Eagles player is set to stand, despite efforts from a defendant medical care provider who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3260,3264,1389,3263,143,3262,3261,929,395],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-43-5m","tag-affirmed","tag-appellate","tag-captain","tag-court","tag-exeagles","tag-medmal","tag-team","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}