In late 2011, the hospital terminated the plaintiff after it determined she posed a danger to the health and safety of its patients.  At trial, the plaintiff’s attorney argued that the hospital did not undertake an adequate investigation prior to making that decision and he asserted that the information the hospital relied upon did not justify its actions.  The plaintiff testified that she has been unable to find work as a physician since the termination.  During her case-in-chief, she presented an economic expert who testified that her lost wages would total nearly $6 million.  In closing arguments, the plaintiff’s counsel asked the jury to award her just over $750,000, an amount that would have totaled nearly $1 million  after interest was added.  The jury found in favor of the hospital and awarded the plaintiff nothing.

Various claims were litigated throughout the case, including the plaintiff’s claims for negligent misrepresentation, fraud, breach of contract, slander/libel/defamation, discrimination, negligence/negligence per se, retaliation, due process violations, 42 U.S.C. §1983, tortious interference, and punitive damages.  Early in the case, the plaintiff also made claims against three other individual defendants, including a hospital employee and two other local physicians who were not hospital employees.  By the time trial began, Attorneys Marso and Murphy had succeeded in getting the three individually named defendants dismissed from the case altogether.