A woman’s settlement with a hormone replacement therapy drug manufacturer will bar a suit she filed against a doctor who allegedly left a sponge in her during a mastectomy, the state Superior Court has ruled.

A unanimous three-judge panel of the court ruled July 23 in Valincius v. Weiner that the settlement release was broad and barred the claims under the precedent outlined in the 1989 state Supreme Court decision in Buttermore v. Aliquippa, which said that the plain language of a release must be given its full effect.

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