Court Upholds Nurse’s Award for Suture System
Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. —
A surgical nurse should receive $520,313 from a company that used an idea of hers in developing a medical product but did not pay her, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
The three-judge panel, upholding an award given last April by a Ramsey County jury, said Karen Tate’s idea for a system to prevent damage to sutures was novel and that Scanlan International Inc. should compensate her for using it.
Scanlan’s lawyers argued that the idea combined existing products and was not novel.
