Wyandotte jury awards $7.65M in heater-cooler infection case tied to KU Med
Wyandotte County jurors awarded $7.65 million to the wife and son of Stephen Nolte, finding KU Med 88% at fault and LivaNova 12% for a fatal Mycobacterium chimaera infection linked to heater-cooler devices used during Nolte’s 2019 heart surgery; KU Med had previously settled with the Noltes, and the verdict is part of a broader wave of lawsuits over device-related infections in Kansas.