Court Affirms Set-Aside of Doctor’s $6.5 Million Award (Correct)

A split Fifth Circuit panel has affirmed a district court’s decision to set aside a jury award of $6.56 million to a medical resident whose contract was terminated after complaints surfaced about his workplace behavior.

The district court didn’t err when it set aside a jury’s verdict that the medical center had breached a contract with the resident, Dr. Joseph Papin, said Judge Stephen A. Higginson in an opinion for the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. This was because the center’s residency program director, Dr. T. Mark Earl, had signed a “remediation agreement” with Papin that would ...