Jury Awards More Than $7 Million to Woman Over Delayed Cancer Diagnosis

A Fleming County jury awarded a woman more than $7 million this week in a lawsuit that alleged a missed diagnosis had cost her precious time.

Kimberly Johnson has battled stage four breast cancer for more than eight years.

But in 2015, she got a letter from the Fleming County Hospital saying that her mammogram results showed she was cancer-free. She learned ten months later that the letter was not correct – the test had actually shown she needed to return for a biopsy, according to her 2016 lawsuit.

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