7Sep/080
Doctor cleared in lawsuit:
Doctor cleared in lawsuit: A former Williston surgeon who came to aid another doctor’s bleeding kidney patient has been cleared by a jury in a wrongful death lawsuit.
A jury in Minot cleared Dr. Inder Khokha on Aug. 22, after a weeklong trial.
The patient involved in the 2004 operation later died. Her son filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Khokha and Dr. Salem Shahin.
The case against Shahin was settled out of court, but the lawsuit continued against Khokha.
The case of the operation led to a divided state Supreme Court ruling last year that Khokha could not use North Dakota’s “good Samaritan” law to ward off the wrongful death lawsuit.