Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation
Apr. 19, 2022
Riverside health system agrees to pay $11.5M to brain-damaged woman
Mike Marlatt of Thompson & Colegate LLP, who represented Riverside University Health System, said, “This was a tragic medical legal case and the county recognized very early on that it should be settled to care for this woman’s condition. We participated in two mediations, and we agreed the sum was fair and reasonable.”
A judge on Monday approved an $11.5 million settlement between the Riverside University Health System and a woman who suffered severe brain damage when medical staff preparing for breast cancer surgery inserted an intubation tube into her esophagus instead of her trachea.
Richard A. Cohn of Aitken Aitken Cohn represents the woman, Maria Sauceda, who has three children. The intubation was for general anesthesia before a surgery to remove a ...
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