(Trinidad Express) Former Government Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira will receive more than $18 million in compensation from Gulf View Medical Centre and one of its doctors.
This after the Privy Council upheld the ruling of a High Court judge and the local Appeal Court.
The judgment was delivered yesterday.
The local courts had found that the doctor and medical centre were liable, by way of negligence, for the death of Nunez-Tesheira’s husband.
In 2017, the Appeal Court had dismissed the appeals filed by Gulf View and Dr Crisen Jendra Roopchand in which they were seeking to have the court overturn the ruling of Vasheist Kokaram which was delivered in March 2015.
Justice Kokaram had found that, Nunez-Tesheira, a former finance minister under the People’s National Movement (PNM), should be awarded the multi-million dollar payment following the death of her husband, former CLICO insurance executive Russell Tesheira, at the hospital after an operation for transurethral resectioning of the prostate (TURP).
Kokaram had found that the sum of just over $18 million should be awarded.
However, the medical centre and doctor appealed the ruling to the Privy Council, which dismissed the grounds of the appeal in a 33 page judgment.
