$13.5 Million MA Jury Verdict for Chemo Death

It's not CT or RI, but close enough. The Boston Globe reports that the family of a 40-year-old Hopkinton woman who died following a cycle of experimental chemotherapy at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, received a jury verdict of $13.5 million yesterday. The jury found "that Altman's death could have been prevented if Dana-Farber doctors had investigated the cause of chronic diarrhea that surfaced during an unusual treatment protocol for a tumor behind her knee." She died from "a massive infection by a flesh-eating bacteria that apparently had caused the diarrhea."