By Doris Sue Wong
GLOBE STAFF
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in a 4-3 ruling, yesterday upheld a $13 million jury award to a Chelsea man who claimed he became a quadriplegic as a result of an inadequate medical examination by a Massachusetts General Hospital doctor.
The majority of justices, in upholding what has been the largest negligence verdict ever awarded an individual in Massachusetts, rejected arguments by the hospital and doctor that there was insufficient evidence to support the claims by 44 year old William Harlow.