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Oct 9, 2008 8:40 am US/Eastern

Suit Claims Hospital Crash Driver Had Dizzy Spells

BROCKTON (AP) ― A lawsuit filed by the widow of a doctor killed when a cancer patient crashed her car into Brockton Hospital claims the driver had complained to her physicians about suffering dizzy spells while driving.
 
The lawsuit filed in Plymouth County Superior Court and made public for the first time on Wednesday blames Jane Berghold's four doctors and the medical practice for which they worked for the death of Dr. Mark Vasa and Susan Plante last October.

The suit says the doctors never warned the 77-year-old Berghold against driving while on powerful prescription drugs.
 
A lawyer for the doctors and medical practice, Compass Medical in Abington, refused comment on the suit.

Berghold was sentenced to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to motor vehicle homicide.

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