Health Workers Suits

An AIDS patient committed fraud when she hid her condition from a health care professional treating her, a Los Angeles jury decided Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by a medical technician who was accidentally cut by a scalpel. The Superior Court jury awarded surgical worker Diane Boulais $102,500 in her case against Jan Lustig, a former Westside psychologist whose AIDS was diagnosed in 1987 but who failed to disclose that when she had breast reduction surgery in 1991.

An AIDS patient committed fraud when she hid her condition from a health care professional treating her, a Los Angeles jury decided Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by a medical technician who was accidentally cut by a scalpel. The Superior Court jury awarded surgical worker Diane Boulais $102,500 in her case against Jan Lustig, a former Westside psychologist whose AIDS was diagnosed in 1987 but who failed to disclose that when she had breast reduction surgery in 1991.