The law firm of Zaytoun & Ballew, PLLC of Raleigh, North Carolina reports a pre-suit $1,800,000 settlement of a dispute arising from a laboratory testing company reporting the wrong results to a customer (“Ms. A”). In 2009, Ms. A hired the lab to perform certain testing. The results Ms. A received indicated certain medical risks. Relying on these results, and in consultation with her healthcare providers, Ms. A elected to take prophylactic surgical action, including an immediate and irreversible surgery followed by a second such surgery in 2018. Prior to the 2018 surgery, Ms. A asked the lab to provide another copy of her test results to her healthcare provider, which it did and which were a replica of the wrong 2009 test results … [Read more...]