Nation in brief : wisconsin : lab fined in fatal pap-smear case

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A medical laboratory that misread the Pap smears of two women who later died of cervical cancer was fined $20,000--the maximum--for reckless homicide. Circuit Judge David Hansher in


Milwaukee said the fine--he called it “$10,000 per life”--was “absolutely inadequate” and urged lawmakers to set tougher penalties for such cases. The case against Chem-Bio Corp. of suburban


Oak Creek represented the first time a lab was hit with criminal charges for misreading Pap smears. MORE TO READ


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