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Thursday, August 30, 2001
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

Family wins $2 million award in suit

CORRECTION: A story in Thursday's Review-Journal reported a $2 million judgment in a medical malpractice case brought by the widow of Clinton Conn against Dr. Craig Schiff, a former physician at Summerlin Hospital Medical Center. Schiff was the only defendant in the case.

District Court jurors handed down a $2 million verdict Wednesday to the family of a 70-year-old man who died in 1997 after going to Summerlin Hospital Medical Center with chest pains.

Clinton Conn went to the emergency room at the hospital but was told to go home by Dr. Craig Schiff, even though an electrocardiogram of Conn showed abnormal results. He was pronounced dead 12 hours later at MountainView Hospital after the family called an ambulance, said plaintiff attorney Bob Vannah.

Conn's widow, Anna, brought the medical malpractice lawsuit heard in Judge James Mahan's courtroom.

"That's a staggering verdict for a 70-year-old," Vannah said of Conn.

Schiff now practices medicine in Victorville, Calif., Vannah said. Attorneys for Schiff did not return phone messages left Wednesday.