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Cell phone company will pay to head-cancer patient despite winning lawsuit
Israel Created: 1 Mar 2013
The Orange network operator in Israel, Partner, will pay 400,000 shekels to a lawyer in his 50's, who sued the company, claiming he got cancer after he had been using two cell phones he had bought from the company.

According to YNET, Partner relates to it as a gesture of good will, trying to help him in dealing with his disease, and agreed to pay without admitting any of the claims. The court verdict was that the lawsuit was rejected. The lawyer filed the lawsuit in May 2010 to the district court. He demanded to pay him millions of shekels, after he got a rare and aggressive lymphoma near his left ear.

He claimed that he got the disease because of frequent use he had done with both cell phones he had bought from the company, one in 2003 and the other in 2007. He used the phone in the protected area in his house [explanation - this relates to a room with wide walls, that all people in Israel need to have in order to protect themselves from missiles in wars. It can be the internal room in the house which has more walls compared to external rooms, or a room with wide walls that was built especially for this purpose] and Partner is responsible for the damage that was caused to him because they did not warn him from using the phone in this room, in which the use causes higher emissions of radiation.

In the medical expert opinion it was claimed that there is an association between the cancer that the plaintiff developed and cell phone use, and that the rare cancer was discovered only in one place in the body - exactly the place where he was exposed to radiation.

Partner said in response: the company is following with extra strictness, after the guidelines and orders of the WHO, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Communication and all the relevant bodies. The lawsuit was not found to have any medical or scientific basis, and it was rejected by the court. Considering the personal story of the plaintiff, the company decided on an exceptional human gesture, we wish him full recovery.

(english translation by Iris Atzmon)

Original article in Hebrew:
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-4351091,00.html
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Source: YNet, translation by Iris Atzmon, 01 Mar 2013

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