Basore v. Ayvazian

Roach, Christine M., J.

This case is one of several before the Worcester Superior Court, pending in various sessions and at various stages of litigation, involving the same tragic and undisputed set of facts. *

In February 2002, multiple organs were harvested from a donor cadaver at UMass Memorial Medical Center, Inc. (UMass Medical). The donor died from metastatic glioblastoma multiforme, that is, a brain cancer that had metastacized to other parts of his body. Plaintiffs decedent in this case, Mr. Skirvin, received a kidney transplant at UMass Medical from the donor cadaver on February 4,…