(From The New York Post)
A MANHATTAN COURT JURY began deliberations Wednesday in the wrongful death suit that sportscaster-writer DICK SCHAAP's family filed against LENOX HILL HOSPITAL and five doctors who treated him before his death in 2001 at 67.
Schaap, a father of six, entered the hospital in August 2001 for routine hip replacement surgery, which should have meant a five-day stay. Instead, he was hospitalized through December of that year, when he died from a sepsis infection.
In the suit, wife TRISH McLEOD SCHAAP and daughter MICHELLE SCHAAP, on behalf of Schaap's estate, charge that LENOX HILL and its doctors were careless and negligent in performing the surgery; that they gave him the wrong medicine; and failed to diagnose and treat his fatal infection. All told, the family is looking for $10 million in damages.
Attorneys for the family declined to comment.
A rep for LENOX HILL claimed that all the allegations against the hospital have either been dropped or dismissed by the court.
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