He certainly has Hanna's attention now. On May 25, with just one day of testimony left in the two-week trial in San Francisco superior court, Hanna and Carvey agreed to settle the comic's $7.5 million malpractice suit against the physician. While Carvey charged that Hanna, 64, a respected heart specialist who had performed some 30,000 bypasses, had negligently bypassed a healthy vessel rather than the damaged artery, Hanna's attorney Dane Jones argued in court that the mix-up was a natural result of abnormalities in Carvey's heart. "They put my arteries on trial," Carvey responds. "Their defense was that I had freakish anatomy." Neither Hanna nor his attorneys would comment on the settlement, and the terms were sealed by the court.
When asked if his client recovered the estimated millions that Carvey claimed he lost in job opportunities because of his health problems, attorney David Baum said only, "We are very pleased with the result. That $7.5 million was for the economic losses claimed. In addition to that, of course, there are also general damages for what Dana went through." Carvey, who said he would donate the money to cardiac research, noted that his health—and his humor—are still intact. "That would be a double whammy," he says. "You don't want them to bypass the wrong artery and lose your sense of humor too."
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
