A local oncologist asked a federal judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit that claims fake drugs were used to treat a woman who ultimately died from the disease.
The lawsuit against Dr. William Kincaid and McLeod Cancer and Blood Center, East Tennessee Hematology-Oncology PC — filed on behalf of Ernest Lane Tribble by his attorney Wendal Jackson, of Bristol — asserts Kincaid administered medications “represented to be chemotherapy drugs” to Tribble’s wife.
In a motion filed by attorney Charles Herndon for Kincaid, the lawsuit failed to state a claim or basis their client did anything wrong and the federal court doesn’t have jurisdiction in the matter.
In an answer to that motion, Jackson stated that Kincaid’s attorney “misses the point. This is not a medical malpractice cas
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