The lower court awarded Amy Fledderman's mother, Colleen, with
$ 2 million in damages for suffering
emotional distress from feeling helpless when Richard Glunk turned down Colleen's request to transfer her daughter to a hospital two and a half hours after the operation.The
appeals court agreed to the award in damages but reversed one aspect of lower court's ruling, asking the Court of Common Pleas to calculate additional damages based on the delay by Glunk and the nurse.