A Dallas woman's ankle surgery resulted in brain injury, and now her insurer is suing

A Dallas surgery center is being sued by a worker's compensation firm that says it’s on the hook for over $1 million to maintain care for patient whose ankle surgery resulted in brain injury.

The Texas Institute for Surgery at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas performed what should have been a routine orthopaedic procedure on a woman who slipped and fell at work in early 2016, the lawsuit claims.

Surgery to repair the woman’s right ankle was paid for by Zenith Insurance Company. That California-based group provided workers compensation coverage to the woman’s employer, a subsidiary of Dunkin Donuts.

But the woman, named as Dallas County resident Tyra Price, suffered from preventable complications during the two-hour outpatient surgery in May 2016, the insurance company said in its complaint filed Jan. 24 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

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