Margaret Mueller and her partner Charlotte Stacey are suing two doctors who treated Mueller for ovarian cancer when she actually had cancer of the appendix. The suit says that she underwent years of unnecessary and devastating treatment while the cancer spread.
Mueller and Stacey have been domestic partners for 21 years and were joined in a civil union in Connecticut in 2005. Now Stacey is also suing the doctors for the harm to her relationship, known as a loss of consortium claim. Before the law granted gay couples the same rights as heterosexual married coupled in Connecticut, only a married partner could seek that compensation.
Attorneys for the doctors said they have no plans to challenge Stacey's right to be included in the lawsuit.
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