GetLegal.com reports that Janet Bianco, a 55 year old nurse, was awarded 15 million dollars for her sexual harassment claim against a doctor at Flushing Hospital in Queens, New York – making the award the largest sexual harassment judgment to ever be awarded to an individual in a New York state court.

Janet Bianco, who worked at Flushing Hospital from 1993-2005, endured several years of unwanted sexual jokes, propositions and groping from a doctor who worked at the hospital. The harassment eventually escalated to two sexual assaults against Bianco in 2001. According to a medical expert who testified at trial, Bianco now suffers from post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and depression as a result of the prolonged harassment Read the rest of this entry »