$3.3 Million Is Awarded Over Damaged Eyesight
From Times Wire Reports
Kaiser Permanente, the state’s largest healthcare provider, has been ordered to pay $3.3 million to a Berkeley man whose eyesight was damaged after undergoing unnecessary heart surgery.
The award was made by an arbitration panel Tuesday to Kamal Azari, 51, a real estate developer, and his wife, Pari. Kamal Azari’s vision was impaired after doctors failed to recognize internal bleeding following heart bypass surgery in 2002, said his attorney, Marvin Lewis Jr.
