Man brain-damaged at hospital awarded $2 million settlement

By Mary Voboril, Herald Staff Writer

A former Dade man may never know it, but he became a millionaire this month with a lump-sum settlement award of $2.1 million to compensate for brain damage he suffered at North Miami General Hospital.

An attorney for Anthony Drewry, now 20, claimed the man suffered irreversible brain damage when a nurse forgot to activate tracheotomy equipment.

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