In 1993, his widow won a $15.7 million malpractice verdict, after claiming that doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital had misdiagnosed swollen lymph nodes when he went to the hospital in 1979 and told a doctor there that he feared that he had cancer.
In 1993, his widow obtained a substantial verdict after she contended that the doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital had failed to accurately diagnose swollen lymph nodes when he consulted them in 1979 and expressed apprehensions about cancer.