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Butler Co. woman to get $7.2M in medical-malpractice case By The Tribune-Review Saturday, March 31, 2007 An Allegheny County jury Friday awarded $7.2 million to a Butler County woman in a medical-malpractice case over the death of her mother, said the daughter's attorney. Carol Hyrcza, of Cranberry, was awarded the money after the jury found Dr. Yvette Ross Hebron and ChoiceCare Physicians liable for the 2001 death of Margaret Mahunik, 60. Hyrcza's attorney, Philip Ignelzi, said Mahunik had successful hip surgery at Allegheny General Hospital, North Side. She was undergoing rehabilitation at then-Suburban General Hospital in Bellevue when she died one day shy of her 61st birthday. The doctor was treating Mahunik after her surgery, said Ignelzi.
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