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Litigation

Nov. 19, 2011

Woman awarded $67.5 million in sex abuse case

A jury awarded $67.5 million in damages Thursday to a woman who alleged that a male nursing assistant at a San Fernando Valley hospital sexually abused her.

By Ciaran McEvoy
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court jury awarded $67.5 million in damages Thursday to a woman who alleged that a male nursing assistant at a San Fernando Valley hospital sexually abused her as she prepared to go home after a 2006 surgery.

The jury reached its verdict in favor of 34-year-old Courtney Rosenberg. It found that Encino Tarzana Regional Medical Center and Tenet Health Care Corp. owed Rosenberg $2.36 million in compens...

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