Tag: lawsuit
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D.C. Woman Claimed a Tea Burn Left Her Unable to Wear Evening Dresses
A cup of hot tea, two busy corridors, and one badly timed collision were enough to send two prominent Washington women into court in January…
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Woman Awarded $10,000 After Doctor Left Gauze Inside Her
In 1920, a Chicago courtroom heard a medical malpractice case that would sound painfully familiar even today. Mrs. Hulda Anderson, the wife of a letter…
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When a Surgical Sponge Was Left Inside a Patient
In 1910, a Los Angeles man brought forward the kind of medical malpractice claim that still makes patients uneasy more than a century later: he…
