New York Magistrate Judge Finds Dentists Not Liable For Oral Cancer Death

(August 8, 2019, 10:29 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York magistrate judge on Aug. 1 concluded that two dentists who failed to diagnose a woman’s rare oral cancer after treating her six times in five months were not responsible for her death from the disease (Prinsema Colbourne v. United States, Nos. 16-5606 and 19-1757, S.D. N.Y., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 128828)....