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Employee sues medical center for lack of security
Healthcare Security Weekly, June 25, 2007
An employee and her husband have filed a lawsuit against the Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) in
According to the lawsuit filed in Kanawha Circuit Court, the woman was brutally raped by an unknown attacker while working at CAMC Women and Children's Hospital medical office building in July, 2005. She went into a public restroom to fill a coffee pot in the sink when a hidden assailant gagged and bound her, the lawsuit states.
The suit contents that the medical center failed to take the necessary steps to prevent potential criminal attacks, the newspaper reported
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