Chase v. Haber

Plaintiff sued for damages for injuries allegedly resulting from unsterile injections causing abscesses. Plaintiff, a medical assistant and receptionist in defendant’s office, was treated by defendant for pneumonia and in the course of treatment received 47 injections in her buttocks. About three to four months after the initial injections approximately 30 severely infected abscesses appeared in the areas injected. The origin of such infection was unknown but plaintiff attributed the infection to alleged malpractice of defendant. Trial by the court, jury having been waived, resulted in a…