Jury Awards $2.2 Billion in Chemotherapy Case
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A jury awarded $2.2 billion to a cancer patient whose pharmacist watered down her chemotherapy drugs.
Georgia Hayes brought the first of more than 400 lawsuits against former pharmacist Robert R. Courtney.
The award consists of $2 billion in punitive damages and more than $225 million in actual damages.
Courtney pleaded guilty earlier this year to diluting the chemotherapy drugs he prepared for Hayes and other cancer patients. He faces as much as 30 years in federal prison.
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