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MEDIA – A Delaware County woman alleges that a local hospital and other medical entities are responsible for professional medical negligence, failing to be aware that her daughter was at risk for a drug overdose and leading to her death in the process.
Mary Phillips (administratrix of the Estate of Nicole Paige Phillips, deceased) of Oxford filed suit in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas on April 30 versus Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital and Mercy Catholic Medical Center of Southeastern Pennsylvania (doing business as “Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital”) of Darby, Trinity Health Corporation of Livonia, Mich. and Trinity Health of the Mid-Atlantic Region, of Conshohocken.
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Last Friday, an Eastern District of Pennsylvania court dismissed Hayriye Beril Gok’s claims in two business tort and antitrust lawsuits, derivative of an initial sexual harassment suit filed by the plaintiff. The opinion, dismissing the federal claims with prejudice, for now concludes the cases stemming from what the plaintiff contended was her illegal termination from the medical residency program at Mercy Catholic Medical Center (Mercy) in 2015.
The court explained that in the plaintiff’s first case, the hospital secured summary judgment after the plaintiff twice appealed to the Third Circuit. “It is important that Plaintiff’s current claims stem from perceived wrongdoings throughout that litigation,” the court wrote.
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