A Connecticut woman has been awarded $1.3 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by her lesbian partner against a local oncologist. The woman filed the lawsuit in January 2006 after she was treated for the wrong form of cancer. In the lawsuit she also sought damages for her longtime partner, whom she had joined in civil union with. A judge initially threw out the woman’s claims, but a Stamford, Conn., jury recently ruled in her favor.