Jury Rejects Suit Over Attempted Rectal Exam
By SEWELL CHAN

Ending a case that has wended its way through the court system for several years, a Manhattan jury on Monday quickly rejected a Brooklyn man�s claim that employees of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital improperly forced him to undergo a traumatic rectal examination after he sustained an on-the-job injury in 2003. After only a few minutes, the jury decided that the man, Brian Persaud, failed to prove the chief claim in his civil lawsuit, that he suffered assault and battery at the hands of hospital workers who wanted to perform a rectal exam to ensure that he did not have internal injuries.


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