Housewife Carol Ann Armstrong, 52, alleged that Quest Laboratories and its medical director, Dr Tan Hong Wui, were negligent for failing to detect a malignant cancer in a skin sample taken from her husband Peter Traynor in 2009.

Norman Lynch was shot in the neck early Feb. 28, records show, and was transported to Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Plains Township.

The plaintiff Jai Narayan was further awarded an additional $2500 as costs summarily assessed by the court.

Ms Elisara, 36, said she noticed rectal bleeding, low iron levels and had extreme pain when passing stools, but her doctor told her it was hemorrhoids.

Lawyers representing Gulf View Medical Centre yesterday presented submissions in its appeal over the decision of High Court Judge Frank Seepersad to dismiss its case against urologist Dr Lester Goetz in November, last year.

The 34-year-old went to the Emergency Department in February 2015 after she fell out of bed and injured her left leg.