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SANTOS ESPADA v. CANCEL LUGO

No. Civ. 00-1666(JP).

165 F.Supp.2d 76 (2001)

Carmen Gloria SANTOS ESPADA, Plaintiff, v. Jaime CANCEL LUGO, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

July 17, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernesto G. López Soltero, López Hernández & López Soltero, Caguas, PR, for plaintiff.

Mirta E. Rodríguez Mora, Montijo & Morales, San Juan, PR, Carlos Martínez Texidor, Martínez Texidor & Fuster, Ponce, PR, for defendant.

JUDGMENT

PIERAS, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff Carmen Gloria Santos Espada filed the Complaint in the instant case on May 30, 2000, alleging a cause of action for medical malpractice under Article 1802 of the Puerto Rico Civil Code. In the Complaint, Plaintiff contends that Defendant Dr. Jaime Cancel Lugo acted negligently in performing a modified radical mastectomy which included the excision of the axillary contents of 14 lymph nodes. As a result...

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