CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman who has lived with a hypodermic needle lodged in her back for nearly seven years has won a $507,000 judgment in a medical malpractice lawsuit.
A St. Louis County jury last week sided with Claudia Ball after a four-day trial, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Claudia Ball in 2011 sued Dr. Catherine Doty and the Allied Physicians Group LLC, which ran the now-closed Breakthrough Pain Relief Clinic in Chesterfield.
Ball accused the doctor of negligence for embedding an inch-and-a-half needle in Ball’s back during a 2009 injection treatment for bulging and degenerative discs.
Ball’s lawyer says efforts to extract the needle have failed.
A message seeking comment was left Sunday with Ryan Gavin, an attorney for Doty and Allied Physicians Group.
