Lost Tumor Nets Plaintiff $275,000, but Attorney Charges Clinic With Stalling
The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that an attorney is claiming that a Riverside, California medical clinic is cynically waiting for her 69-year-old client to die rather than pay a $275,000 personal injury judgment awarded for the mishandling of her cancerous tissue sample. The woman is dying of melanoma which went undiagnosed for three years, even though she had a tumor on her foot that was deemed suspicious enough to biopsy. The woman's medical records indicated that the tumor was lost in transit to the lab that was to analyze it. The defendant's attorneys claim that they aren't stalling, but simply appealing the case as allowed by law, according to the Press-Enterprise.

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