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Finding that these injuries were reasonably foreseeable, the district court decided that Suburban was indeed a joint tortfeasor with PTSM such that Mrs. The district court held a motions hearing on January 20, 2012. Additionally, pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, Suburban agreed to make an initial $650,000 payment to the LaClairs and further agreed to make an additional payment of $600,000 in the event that the court found PTSM and Suburban were not joint tortfeasors as to the November 6 incident. Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement between the LaClairs and Suburban, however, the parties agreed to submit to the district court the question of whether PTSM and Suburban were joint tortfeasors in connection with the November 6 incident, or whether those injuries were separate and distinct such that Suburban alone would be liable. LaClair suffered injuries from the November 6 incident that were separate and distinct from those of the November 1 incident. The Suburban lawsuit, filed about six (6) weeks after the PTSM settlement, alleged that Mr. The Settlement Agreement specifically recognized that the LaClairs would be pursuing separate claims against Suburban, in connection with the November 6 incident alone. Subsequently, the LaClairs settled with PTSM for $1 million on March 5, 2010. Powers testified that the injuries stemming from the November 1 incident were вЂњseparate, distinct, and divisibleвЂќ from those sustained by the November 6 incident. The PTSM lawsuit alleged that PTSM was responsible for not only the injuries and damages incurred from the November 1 incident at PTSMвЂ™s facility, but also the injuries and damages incurred from the November 6 incident at Suburban. The LaClairs filed two (2) separate lawsuits: first, against PTSM for injuries stemming from the November 1 incident (filed March 19, 2009) (the вЂњPTSM lawsuitвЂќ), and second, against Suburban for вЂњseparate and distinctвЂќ injuries stemming from the November 6 incident. He spent nearly five (5) months hospitalized, underwent plaster casting of his cervical spine, developed bedsores, and ultimately required a feeding tube. LaClair underwent a third surgery on February 6, 2008, at Georgetown University Hospital. LaClair could no longer be discharged on November 7 as previously scheduled, but instead needed to undergo an additional surgery on November 8. LaClair and found a fracture of the C7 endplate, dislocation at C6/C7, dislodging of the screws placed in previous surgery, and several other post-surgical disruptions. LaClair, her husbandвЂ™s вЂњhead was violently pushed against the side rail of the bed and he cried out in pain,вЂќ because one (1) of the patient care technicians was вЂњvery rough.вЂќ Dr. LaClair used the bathroom, and the patient care technicians attempted to reposition him in his hospital bed. LaClair needed assistance using the bathroom, and two (2) patient care technicians responded. LaClair had вЂњrecovered and was to be discharged to a rehabilitation facilityвЂќ the next day, and вЂњthere was no plan or expectation for subsequent cervical spine surgeries due to the success of the November 3 surgery.вЂќ Powers also stated that, as of the morning of November 6, 2007, Mr.

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LaClairвЂ™s prognosis at that time included a complete and total recovery free from future cervical spine surgery.вЂќ Dr. Powers, the surgery вЂњwas successful and proceeded without complication, and Mr. Powers inserting screws and rods to secure Mr. On November 3, 2007, Alexandros Powers, M.D., a neurosurgeon at Suburban, performed surgery on Mr. He was taken by ambulance to Suburban, where he was diagnosed with a cervical fracture and dislocation. He was attempting to secure himself in a piece of exercise equipment and fell onto the floor, while his physical therapist had stepped away. LaClair, a вЂњvibrant former CIA officerвЂќ in his mid-80s, sustained an injury while receiving physical therapy at the PTSM facility. LaClairвЂ™s injuries, and Suburban and PTSM were joint tortfeasors in accordance with the district courtвЂ™s ruling.

Messitte held that SuburbanвЂ™s actions were not a superseding cause of Mr. LaClair at Suburban were foreseeable consequences of the alleged negligence of PTSM. Applying several provisions of the Restatement (Second) of Torts, each of which was grounded in the idea that an intervening act is not a superseding cause if it was foreseeable at the time of the primary negligence, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit determined that the harm and injuries sustained by Mr. (вЂњSuburbanвЂќ), and Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine (вЂњPTSMвЂќ), were joint tortfeasors with respect to injuries her husband sustained while he was a patient at Suburban. LaClairвЂќ), appealed the Maryland district courtвЂ™s order finding that Suburban Hospital, Inc. LaClair, individually and as the personal representative of the estate of her husband, Cameron J.

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