Last month a jury awarded $11.5 million dollars in a Miami medical malpractice case to former Dolphins player OJ McDuffie after a two and a half week trial.
McDuffie who was a wide receiver for the Miami team filed a suit against the team physician, John Uribe, who advised McDuffie that he could continue to play after he injured his big toe during the 1999 season as a result of a collision in a game against the New England Patriots. He was sent back in twice in that same game and the next day despite an MRI that revealed tendon damage, Uribe said McDuffie could keep playing and the toe would heal without incident. Whereas in 1998 McDuffie led the NFL in receptions and touchdowns, after his injury his performance deteriorated and by 2002 he was cut from the team and his contract was terminated three years early. When McDuffie did get a second opinion after playing on the bad toe and suffering severe pain he learned that irreversible damage had been done to the nerve in his toe. The suit against Uribe is not the only one McDuffie has filed in relation to this injury.
According to the Miami Herald McDuffie has filed suits against other parties in relation to the injury that ended his career, most of which have settled outside of court. David J. Neal writing for the Herald reports “some other suits related to the injury against other doctors and at least two hospitals have been resolved in the nearly eight years since the suits were filed in June 2002.”
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