A jury decided that a cardiologist must pay more than $6 million to the family of a patient who died days after having been discharged from the doctor’s care.
On March 16, 2016, plaintiff’s decedent Laura Staib, 39, a homemaker, died. Staib’s widower, Sergio Orosito, claimed that his wife’s death was a result of improperly treated myocarditis. He claimed that the condition’s symptoms were evident on Feb. 25, 2016, when Staib was admitted to Florida Hospital DeLand, in Deland. Staib’s respiration was failing, and she was suffering sepsis. She was intubated.
