Claim filed against LA County hospital, nurse in patient death
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LOS ANGELES The family of a 28-year-old Los Angeles man has filed a one (m) million dollar claim for negligence against troubled Martin Luther King Junior/Drew Medical Center and a nurse.
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A woman who cradled her dying daughter and later died herself has become the subject of a medical investigation.
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NEW ORLEANS, July 3 -- The district attorney has dropped the case against two nurses in the deaths of four patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina.
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A hospital under scrutiny about patient safety admits care failures after the deaths of two elderly women.
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The health care union that led a 24-hour strike Wednesday at nine regional hospitals filed a lawsuit Friday against Sutter Health and a recruiting firm that hired replacement workers.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The family of a woman who died while taking an experimental AIDS drug has filed a negligence lawsuit seeking $10 million in damages.
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LOS ANGELES -- Reviewers from a national accrediting agency are in Los Angeles for unannounced inspections of four hospitals run by Los Angeles County, it was reported Tuesday.
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The family of a 28-year-old man who died at the county-owned Martin Luther King Jr.-Drew Medical Center after a nurse allegedly turned down his vital signs monitor has filed a $1 million
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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is reporting a death from locally acquired West Nile Virus (WNV). The victim is a 62-year-old male from the eastern region of the county who passed away last week.
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The family of John Ritter is suing Providence St. Joseph&#39;s Medical Center in Burbank, California, accusing it and its staff of negligence in the death of the actor.
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The case against a doctor and two nurses accused of murdering four elderly patients after Hurricane Katrina will go forward despite a coroner's ruling that it is unclear how they died, the New Orleans District Attorney's office said on Thursday.
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Louisiana taxpayers paid more than $360,000 for the failed prosecution of the owners of a nursing home where 35 people died during Hurricane Katrina, according to documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
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The family of a state prison inmate from Richmond who died after dental surgery filed a federal civil rights suit against the Department of Corrections last week, claiming the state routinely deprives prisoners of adequate medical care.
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Hospitals will be allowed to claim for the cost of treating people injured at work, under plans being considered.
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The family of a 17-year-old girl who died hours after her health insurer reversed a decision and said it would pay for a liver transplant plans to sue the company, their attorney said Friday.
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The daughter of a woman who died after choking on her lunch at Youville Hospital &amp; Rehabilitation Center sued the hospital and two medical staff members yesterday, charging that their attempts to save Rosalyn Pearl were "a comedy of errors" that exposed poor emergency training as well as faulty life-saving equipment at the Cambridge facility.
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District health officials and lawyers with a federally funded advocacy group for the disabled are investigating the death of an adolescent girl who had been receiving long-term psychiatric treatment at the private, for-profit Riverside Hospital in Northwest.