2/29/2008
$12 Mil. Jury Award in Breast Cancer Case

A Philadelphia jury on Wednesday awarded $12 million to a woman with terminal breast cancer in her suit against two doctors for allegedly failing to diagnose the disease before it had progressed to an incurable stage.

Plaintiff's attorney Donna Lee Jones of Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky said one of the doctors had settled confidentially prior to trial, and that the jury concluded that the settling doctor was 35 percent responsible for the failure to diagnose.

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