Herskovits v. Group Health Cooperative

Supreme Court of Washington · Decided 1983-05-26

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Dore, J. This appeal raises the issue of whether an estate can maintain an action for professional negligence as a result of failure to timely diagnose lung cancer, where the estate can show probable reduction in statistical chance for survival but cannot show and/or prove that with timely diagnosis and treatment, decedent probably would have lived to normal life expectancy. Both counsel advised that fo…

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