<unk> eronica<unk>  et al. was a $175 million negligence lawsuit filed in 1988 by a medical doctor,<unk> erónica<unk> , against the<unk> <unk> <unk>  Health and Hospitals Corporation, Dr. Joyce F. Fogel and Dr. Sheldon H. Landesman.<unk>  contracted HIV in 1983 when she was working at Kings County Hospital Center. In her lawsuit she contended that she was infected with the<unk> irus by pricking her finger on an infected needle at the hospital. According to<unk>  the needle was improperly disposed of by Dr. Fogel after being used on an AIDS patient. The defense contended that Dr.<unk>  had drawn the infected blood herself and had caused the accident on her own. In March 1990, just before summations to the jury would have been held, she suddenly dropped her lawsuit, settling out-of-court without a public acknowledgement of negligence from the defendants and for what was initially an undisclosed sum of money. The judge later disclosed that $1.35 million was awarded to<unk>  in the settlement.
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