DES MOINES, IA (AP) — An Iowa jury has returned a $27 million verdict against a Des Moines medical clinic after a man with bacterial meningitis was misdiagnosed with the flu, suffered strokes and said he has been permanently injured.
The Polk County jury returned the verdict in the lawsuit filed in 2017 against UnityPoint Clinic Family Medicine in Des Moines.
Joseph Dudley filed the lawsuit after he became ill in February 2017 and went to the clinic in southeast Des Moines.
UnityPoint disagrees with the decision and maintains they acted properly.
