A jury ordered the giant medical scope maker Olympus Corp. to pay a Seattle hospital $6.6 million in damages tied to a deadly superbug outbreak — and told the hospital to pay $1 million to a deceased patient’s family. But jurors on Monday also handed the Tokyo-based manufacturer a key win, rejecting claims that its flagship duodenoscope…
Widow Unleashes Court Fight Against Scope Maker Olympus Over Superbug Outbreak
Three executives from Japan loom large in a cramped courtroom in Seattle — at least their photos do, mounted on a white poster board propped in front of the jury. “They were the key decision-makers,” one attorney said during opening arguments to a lawsuit brought by a local widow against a giant Tokyo-based medical device…