Utility Sues Cancer Patient for $267,885

A Florida utility is suing a dying man for more than $250,000 to recoup the cost of fighting his lawsuit that claimed power lines caused the leukemia that killed his wife and is now killing him, the Miami Herald reported. Florida Power & Light Co said it wants Leonard Glazer to repay $267,885 of the costs of a lawsuit it won last May in which Glazer claimed the utility’s power lines above his house caused him and his wife to contract leukemia. Earlier this year, a Dade County judge ruled that the amount of radiation from the transmission lines was not harmful. Glazer appealed the case, and it is scheduled to be argued before a state appeals court in November.