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Children's not granted damages cap in sexual abuse suit
Children's Hospital Boston did not win “charitable immunity” in a lawsuit filed against a former pediatrician who is accused of sexually abusing boys in his care, the Harvard Crimson reports.
The state Superior Court decision rejected the motion Wednesday in a lawsuit filed against Dr. Melvin D. Levine, former chief of ambulatory pediatrics at Children's and a Harvard Medical School professor, according to the paper. Levine, who left the hospital for North Carolina in 1985, has denied the accusations.
In Massachusetts, charitable immunity caps damages against nonprofit institutions that receive donations to do charitable work at $20,000.
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