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Proposed Federal Legislation Would Impose Regulations To Prevent Black-Market Brokering Of Donated Body Parts
CBS Chicago 7 hrs ago Syndicated Local – CBS Chicago
CHICAGO (CBS) A stomach-turning case has affected hundreds of Illinois families, who chose to donate their loved ones’ bodies to help others – but instead, parts and pieces of them were sold to the highest bidder.
For years, CBS 2 tracked the fallout of the now-shuttered Biological Resource Center of Illinois. On Tuesday, a federal effort was launched, starting in Illinois, to regulate the black-market body-brokering industry.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Illinois) talked about it only with CBS 2’s Tara Molina, who has covered this closely.
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.