Intuitive Wins Trial, Beats Negligence Claims (Corrected)
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Intuitive Surgical Inc. convinced a Washington state jury that it wasn’t negligent in its training of a doctor who performed a robot-assisted surgery on a patient who later died.
Jurors in Port Orchard, Washington, reached their verdict yesterday by a 10-2 vote after a five-week trial. Intuitive owes no damages based on claims that the patient, Fred Taylor, and his family suffered due to the company’s inadequate training of the doctor who removed his prostate gland in 2008, according to the verdict.