CONNECTICUT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Physician/Therapist Patient Abuse

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A brief survey of Connecticut/therapist patient sexual abuse cases:

(1) $2,750,000 Verdict Against Research Physician Hospital:

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE – HOSPITAL NEGLIGENCE – NEGLIGENT SUPERVISION – FAILURE TO DETECT RESEARCH PHYSICIAN MOLESTED CHILDREN DURING RESEARCH PROJECT – PSYCHOLOGICAL INJURIES AND DAMAGES.

In this matter, the plaintiff alleged that the defendant hospital was negligent in failing to monitor and oversee the work of a researcher at the hospital who was performing a growth study on children. The plaintiff alleged that as a child in the study he was molested and otherwise inappropriately treated by the research physician and the defendant failed to realize the true nature of the molester (Connecticut).

(2) $100,000 Verdict Against Therapist and Health Service:

This was an action brought by the male plaintiff against the defendant health service alleging negligence on the part of the defendant’s female employee therapist in allegedly seducing the plaintiff, causing ineffective treatment and relapse into alcoholism.

(3) $100,000 Verdict Against Psychiatrist:

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE - PSYCHIATRY - ALLEGED SEXUAL ABUSE OF MINOR PLAINTIFF PATIENT - DEFENDANT DENIES ALL ALLEGATIONS.

This was a malpractice action brought by the female plaintiff, age ten when she commenced treating with the defendant psychiatrist for symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The plaintiff, who was age 20, by the time of trial, contended that during the course of her treatment with the defendant psychiatrist, she was sexually molested by the defendant physician (Connecticut).