A medical laboratory that misread the Pap smears of two women who later died of cervical cancer was fined $20,000--the maximum--for reckless homicide. Circuit Judge David Hansher in

Milwaukee said the fine--he called it “$10,000 per life”--was “absolutely inadequate” and urged lawmakers to set tougher penalties for such cases. The case against Chem-Bio Corp. of suburban

Oak Creek represented the first time a lab was hit with criminal charges for misreading Pap smears. MORE TO READ