$2-Million Judgment Against Paper, Reporter
The Boston Globe and a former reporter must pay more than $2 million to a doctor who said she was wrongly blamed in the paper for the death of the newspaper’s health columnist, the state’s highest court ruled.
Dr. Lois Ayash had sued the newspaper and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, claiming she was singled out as the “leader of the team” of doctors caring for columnist Betsy Lehman when she died in 1994 from an overdose of experimental cancer drugs.
The Supreme Judicial Court upheld the $1.68-million award against the Globe and a $420,000 award against a former reporter.
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