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Click here. Cincinnati Surgical Company Sued 5/25/2007 4:16:58 PM | Craig Simpson Pennsylvania man wins $5M in wife's gastric bypass death suit. advertisement Fifty-three-year-old Daniel Selepec of East McKeesport, Pennsylvania sued Ethicon Endo-Surgery of Cincinnati -- which made the stomach stapler used in his wife's surgery in 2002. Forty-year-old Sandra Selepec died 20 days after the surgery. The jury agreed with her husband's claim that she died because two staples didn't close completely -- allowing her stomach to leak. The woman had surgery to fix the problem -- but never regained consciousness before dying.
Ethicon officials say they disagree with the verdict and plan to appeal. The company says their equipment wasn't to blame. (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) Content © AkronNewsNow.com. All rights reserved. Comments AkronNewsNow.com reserves the right to delete posts, and we encourage readers to report potential inappropriate posts. We believe in vigorous and open discussion of public issues, but we do not permit spam, commercial sales, personal insults, personal attacks or extensive postings which are off-topic or inappropriate for reasons such as profanity, libelous content or simple respect for the opinions of others. Content is important, but so is behavior. Decisions by the editor are the sole discretion of AkronNewsNow.com. There are currently no comments on this story. If you wish to leave a comment, please log in or register.
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