Highland Family Has Been Awarded $4.45 Million in Malpractice Suit

A jury awarded $4.45 million to a Highland family Friday. The court found a St. Catherine Hospital emergency doctor responsible for medical malpractice. The family sued Dr. Rajeev Sareen after the Dec. 22, 2001, death of 45-year-old Roger Vuckovich.

The former Inland Steel security supervisor died of an abdominal aortic aneurysm about twelve hours after being discharged from St. Catherine Hospital in East Chicago.

Attorney Kathleen Maicher, who represented St. Catherine Hospital early in the lawsuit, said the hospital and a radiologist were dismissed from the civil suit after a medical review panel ruled they met the standard of care.

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