Lung Cancer Patient Left With Minimal Damages in Diagnosis Suit

A lung cancer patient lost his bid for a new trial in a failure-to-diagnose suit because he didn’t show that a trial judge’s alleged errors negatively influenced the jury’s verdict, the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday.

Even assuming the trial judge was mistaken, there was enough evidence for a jury to conclude that radiologist Jeremy Baum’s failure to spot a tumor near Steve Williams’ right lung in 2018 didn’t affect Williams’ chance of survival, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said.

Williams went to his doctor for chest pains in 2015. Radiologist Michelle Peterson-Jones read his x-rays and ...