Halifax hospital donnybrook: Appeal court reduces cardiologist’s damages
HALIFAX — A court has dramatically reduced a cardiology researcher’s record-setting, $1.4 million judgment for damages from a workplace battle at a Halifax hospital.
In a decision released Tuesday, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal reduced Dr. Gabrielle Horne’s damages to $800,000.
It said the lower figure better represents the “loss of reputation and loss to her research career” after a personality conflict torpedoed her heart research.
Horne was researching “the mechanical differences in the hearts of patients who have stable and unstable heart muscle problems” at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.