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Medical Malpractice
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Case Details
A Las Cruces couple was awarded damages after a German company (Biotronik) and its salesman conspired to unnecessarily implant a pacemaker in Tommy Sowards in 2007.
Additional Notes
The jury determined that Biotronik, an international biomedical firm, and its salesman, Edward Tague, were negligent in 65-year-old Tommy Sowards receiving a pacemaker in 2007. The jury awarded Sowards and his wife, Barbara, more than $67.2 million. Most of that total, $65 million, came in the form of punitive damages. The Sowards received more than $2.3 million in compensatory and loss of consortium damages. The three-week trial was the longest jury trial in his 11 years on the bench at 3rd Judicial District Court.