$4,100,000 Verdict for Deafness in One Ear At a major teaching hospital, a patient suffering from a tumor in one ear mistakenly received radiation treatment to his other, healthy ear, rendering him deaf. To overcome the hospital's argument that the patient's hearing loss was the result of an autoimmune disease, our attorney arranged for state-of-the-art DNA testing to be done by the medical expert who created the definitive diagnostic test. The test result convinced the jury that the hospital was wrong, and they awarded the patient a $4.1 million recovery.