The parents of a Pennsylvania woman who died after attending an icy-water Polar Bear Plunge at the New Jersey shore have lost their legal case against a hospital and a doctor.
A federal jury disagreed with the arguments from 35-year-old suburban Philadelphia resident Tracy Hottenstein's family that paramedics could have done more to save her. Her body was found near a pier in Sea Isle City on Feb. 15, 2009.
The family's lawsuit said she may have been alive but suffering from hypothermia and paramedics didn't take adequate steps to save her.
Hottenstein had been drinking with friends after the town's annual Polar Bear Plunge the previous night. She didn't take the plunge but fell off a pier later.
The lawsuit had named AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center and the doctor who pronounced Hottenstein dead.
The verdict was reached Tuesday.
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