Health Care & Hospital Law
Oct. 25, 2022
Kaiser must pay $17M to patient in coma, arbitrator rules
After nine days of arbitration and hearing the testimony of 25 witnesses, arbitrator Thomas D. Weaver sided with the plaintiff’s attorneys and awarded $17,254,764 in total. “The arbitrator’s impression is that the reasoning of claimant’s experts is more credible and logical,” he wrote.
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. must pay $17 million to a substitute teacher who suffered a massive ischemic stroke as a result of an elective surgery and medication abuse, an arbitrator ruled.
Matthew Andreeff, 38, underwent elective surgery at Kaiser Panorama City Hospital to remove a neurofibroma from his anterior rectus muscle. A day after the procedure, he went into renal failure and had to be sedated and intubated while receiving ...
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