$15 Million Award For Delayed Cancer Diagnosis Affirmed By 7th Circuit

Mealey's (March 11, 2019, 8:01 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a $15 million award to a couple, holding on Feb. 27 that a health care center could be held liable for an independent contractor radiologist’s negligence in failing to diagnose the wife’s recurrence of rectal cancer (Courtney Webster, et al. v. CDI Indiana LLC, No. 18-3080, 7th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 5844)....