$18 Million Judgment for Errors by Laboratory

Unclear test requisition led to confusion between laboratory and ordering doctor

CEO SUMMARY: In a wrongful birth lawsuit, a high-risk pregnancy physician in New Jersey requested a cytogenetics test on a pregnant mother, but LabCorp’s cytogenetics lab never did the test. After the baby was born with myotubular myopathy—the same deformity the mother had sought to prevent—she sued and won a jury verdict in her favor […]

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$18 Million Judgment for Errors by Laboratory

Unclear test requisition led to confusion between laboratory and ordering doctor

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