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Polio Victim's 30-Year Crusade Garners $22.5 Million Award

Filed in 1981, <i>Tenuto v. Lederle Laboratories</i> is the oldest ongoing non-guardianship case in New York City, according to the Office of Court Administration. Now there's an award. But will it stand?

11 minute read May 26, 2009 at 10:18 AM
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Mark Fass
Polio Victim's 30-Year Crusade Garners $22.5 Million Award

In May 1979, Elizabeth Tenuto brought her 5-month-old daughter, Diana, to a Staten Island, NY, pediatrician for her second dosage of an oral polio vaccine. A month later, Ms. Tenuto's husband, Dominick, contracted polio, apparently by touching Diana's stool while changing her diaper.

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