Largest verdict in Cambria County

A woman from Johnstown, Cambria County, suffered a spinal cord injury as a result of a ruptured disk pressing on the spinal cord causing a condition known as cauda equina syndrome. The surgeon who was attending to her in the hospital did not discover the spinal cord compression until it was too late. This woman suffered permanent impairment of her bowel and bladder function and also nerve damage to her leg. A jury in Cambria County returned a verdict of $600,000 which, at the time, was the largest verdict ever in that county.