$353,000 jury verdict against a surgeon for injuring the common bile duct during a gallbladder removal surgery resulting in a 3-week hospitalization. Tanisha Belk v. Dr. Joseph Brosnon. During a laporascopic gallbladder removal surgery, Dr. Brosnon improperly injured Tanisha’s common bile duct causing the need for a repair surgery and two week hospitalization. No offer to settle the case was ever made on behalf of Dr. Brosnon.