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It's called Insinga[br]versus LaBella.

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And it's about a physician[br]who I believe was actually

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convicted of a felony in Canada[br]and came down here to Florida

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and got a Florida license[br]and got clinical privileges

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at a hospital here in[br]Florida and started

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doing operations on people and[br]treating people in the hospital.

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And he was a total fraud.

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In fact, he wasn't[br]even named LaBella.

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He'd actually got the medical[br]license and medical diploma

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information from an Italian[br]physician named LaBella

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and claimed he went[br]to school in Italy,

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and this wasn't even[br]the same doctor.

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This was a completely[br]different doctor.

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But because the hospital didn't[br]do a thorough job of checking

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his credentials, I mean,[br]the Italian physician,

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who was dead by the[br]way, was even a female.

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And this was a male doctor.

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So you have a male[br]doctor here pretending

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to be a female[br]doctor who's dead,

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claiming he went[br]to school in Italy.

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Oh, I graduated from this[br]medical school in Italy,

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and had was clinical[br]privileges at a hospital.

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But because they didn't do[br]a thorough, thorough job

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of checking the background and[br]checking the clinical privileges

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and making sure that that[br]person was who he claimed to be,

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they put him in a position to[br]treat patients and malpractice

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on patients and stuff.

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And he harmed quite[br]a few patients

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before they[br]eventually found out.

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So they were able to sue[br]the hospital directly,

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and this is where one of the[br]examples of corporate negligence

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comes from where you can sue[br]the corporation directly.

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You don't have to worry about[br]vicarious liability because

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of its employees.

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Here, they sued the hospital[br]directly for its own negligence,

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because they didn't have a[br]good-enough procedure in place

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to check the backgrounds of[br]people that came in and applied

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for clinical privileges.

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So this person just[br]slipped through.