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SINGAPORE – The Court of Appeal has ordered the High Court to redetermine an award of more than $1.2 million to a widow who sued a medical lab and its medical director for failing to detect cancer in her husband’s skin sample.
The five-judge court allowed the appeal of Carol Ann Armstrong, 53, that the medical negligence caused her husband, Peter Traynor, to lose his full life expectancy instead of the four years held in the judgment of the High Court last year.
The Court of Appeal affirmed the High Court’s finding that Quest Laboratories and its director, Dr Tan Hong Wui, had failed to spot the skin cancer in a skin sample from Mr Traynor in 2009. Mr Traynor, a Singapore-based information technology specialist, died in 2013 at the age of 49. The Canadian couple have two daughters aged 10 and 12.
Judge of Appeal Andrew Phang in decision grounds on Tuesday (Nov 26) said: “It is difficult to understate the significance of the Respondents’ breach… lives depend upon accurate diagnoses by pathologists, and diagnoses had therefore to be undertaken with due diligence.”
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