Good News, Bad News: Scottish Man Gives Away All of His Wealth After a False Diagnosis of Terminal Cancer

Now, this makes for an interesting torts case. Andy Lees, 72, was toward that he was dying with little time left by St. Johns’s Hospital. The Scottish man proceeded to give away all that he owned to friends and relatives — except for money spent on the funeral. Then he not only failed to die of cancer, but it turns out that he does not have lung cancer at all.

It turns out that Lees has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which is not terminal. Now, however, he is broke.

The usual misdiagnosis case involves the failure to identify cancer, which then grows to the point of no return or dramatically reduces the chances of survival. There is obvious negligence. The question will be the foreseeability of the damages. This is not the most common response to such news. However, it is directly linked to the act of negligence.

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