A Lake County jury awarded a $5.8 million verdict to the survivors of a man who died from internal bleeding after an angiogram.
But while the jury deliberated, the plaintiff in the case accepted the $1 million insurance policy limit settlement from the defendant doctor’s insurer.
On April 7, 2009, John Kovacs, 57, went to Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan for a diagnostic angiogram. In a coronary angiogram, a doctor uses x-ray technology to view the blood vessels.
Cardiologist Isaac Dor performed the …