A Montgomery County Circuit Court jury has returned a $5.8 million medical-malpractice verdict in the death of a 47-year-old lawyer whose untreated mole turned into a skin cancer that spread to his brain. 

The award will be reduced to $3.6 million due to Maryland’s cap on non-economic damages in medical-malpractice cases, said plaintiffs’ attorney Patrick Malone. He represents the family and estate of Richard H. Semsker, who died in 2007 and is survived by his wife and two children. 

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