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Jury awards $1.5 million in lawsuit against hospital LEXINGTON, Ky. A jury has awarded one-point-five (M) million dollars in punitive damages to the estate of a Lexington man who died after being released from St. Joseph Hospital in 1999. A Fayette County jury on Wednesday ruled that the hospital was reckless with the life of 39-year-old James Milford Gray. An attorney for Gray's estate, Darryl Lewis, says the hospital failed to address the emergency medical condition that led to Gray's death. The lawsuit, filed in April 2000, alleged that St. Joseph Hospital violated the "patient-dumping act" by releasing Gray when he showed an emergency medical condition. Gray was paraplegic. He died on April Ninth, 1999, about three hours after his last visit to the hospital. Lewis said the cause of death was complications of a ruptured ulcer. Hospital attorney Jay Ingle says St. Joseph maintains that Gray was released in stable condition and his symptoms did not appear life-threatening.
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