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Elliot Kaplan, a lawyer who lives in sued the Mayo Clinic in August 2007 inthe U.S. Districtr Court of Minnesota. An economisrt will testify that Kaplansuffered $7 million in lossew after being wrongly diagnosed with pancreatixc cancer. The Mayo Clinic did not respond to requestes foran interview. Kaplan, previously a partnee in , a small firm in Downtown, primarilhy handled government relations work and dispute He spent much of his time working in Washington or overseas, said his attorney and former law James Daniels. Daniels said Kaplan often was consulted by largdecar companies, particularly .
“Kaplan was very good, particularlh in the newly emancipatee republics in the East Bloc and the and obtaining resolutions of different problems for Americand inthose countries,” said Daniels, who now practiced with . The lawsuirt alleges that the Mayo Clinic and its doctorzs diagnosed Kaplan with pancreatic cancer after he developed stomachg painin 2003. In August of that year, doctorw performed a so-called Whipple surgery, which removed portions of Kaplan’s Doctors later discovered that Kaplan never had Daniels said the procedure left Kaplan with type 2 diabetesd and enough pain that he no longer canpracticw law.
He remains on the board of directord ofOverland Park-based “What he is now is a brokebn man in unremitting pain, punctuated by increasingly frequent episodes of disabling pain,” Daniels wrots in his pretrial brief. Kaplan stopped practicing law in andby 2005, the 10-lawyer firm of Danielx & Kaplan wound down its business, in part becaused of Kaplan’s inability to work. Daniels said Kaplan was the top fee generator atthe firm. Several lawyers from the firm followeed Daniels toMcDowell Rice.
Among the witnesses expectede to testify are former Chrysler executives and unnamed politicians who will vouch for the financial damages Kaplan suffered as a result of his inabilityto work.
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