PHOENIX (Legal Newsline) – A company sort-of associated with a former body parts dealer now serving a nine-year prison sentence has won a key court victory against family members who tried to pin blame on it.
Platinum Medical had judgment for it and owners Charles and Amy Oddo affirmed on April 29 by the Arizona Court of Appeals, which ruled against 14 plaintiffs who charged them with negligence and vicarious liability for the actions of Arthur Rathburn.
Platinum offers medical education programs and procured cadavers from Biological Resource Center, which worked with individuals who wanted their bodies donated to science.
The owner of BRC became a 9% owner of Platinum in 2013 and had previously provided hundreds of bodies to Rathburn, who ran a scheme in which he misled more than 100 training courses about the conditions of the bodies. Some of them were infected with HIV and hepatitis.
Share May 06, 2021, 8:05 AM For those of us who don t follow professional wrestling, there is perhaps no clickbait headline clickier than one that begins
Grosse Pointe man begs for prison release. Any wealthier suburb will do, and the begs is an important part of it. It makes one think:
Oh now you re begging? Should have thought of that before you :::checks notes::: accepted a bucket full of human heads shipped from overseas!
Will someone think of the victims? (File photo) Yes, it s Arthur Rathburn we re talking about here, the man who is, as Tresa Baldas puts it perfectly, a onetime prominent cadaver expert who built a $13-million empire cutting up bodies with chainsaws and renting their parts to medical researchers.
Convicted cadaver dealer Arthur Rathburn is pleading for compassionate release from prison citing fears of contracting the coronavirus though the government says that s hogwash.
The Grosse Pointe Park businessman has refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine, prosecutors noted in a court filing Wednesday as they push to keep him locked up.
Prosecutors have cited several reasons for keeping Rathburn behind bars, including:
A generalized fear of contracting the coronavirus doesn t justify compassionate release.
He doesn t have a recognized chronic condition that puts him at an increased risk of severe illness from the virus.
He won t follow social-distancing rules and could sicken others if released.