A Philadelphia jury has awarded a $5.8 million verdict to the family of a woman who claimed that Einstein Healthcare Network’s failure to perform a hysterectomy or a myomectomy led to the spread and metastasis of her cancer.

After a four-day trial and six hours of deliberation in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Stella Tsai’s courtroom, the jury awarded its verdict to the estate of Lucretia Burgess, who died at age 48 of uterine cancer in September 2015.

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