12-year-old suffers complications from rollerblading fracture – $613,312 Verdict 
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Published: October 4, 2010
Tags: Judge Robert M.D. Turk, Medical Malpractice, Montgomery County Circuit Court
Plaintiff, a 12-year-old boy, suffered a comminuted left femur fracture while rollerblading on Nov. 25, 2006. The defendant applied external fixation (a kind of mobile traction device) and set the fracture in varus (outward bowing) somewhere between 12 degrees and 15 degrees according to defense experts, and at 17 or18 degrees, according to measurements taken ...
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