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Health Care & Hospital Law,
Civil Litigation

Nov. 2, 2022

Women switched at birth, heirs sue after one’s suicide

The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 26 in Ventura County Superior Court, alleges that Ventura County Medical Center, then known as Ventura County General Hospital, knowingly or negligently placed children delivered there in the custody of strangers and did not inform the parents of the true location of their children or the standard of its procedures that led to such a mistake.

A hospital in Ventura is accused of switching two babies at birth in 1960, leading to the suicide of one of them over three decades later after a life of feeling alienated, according to her heirs.

The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 26 in Ventura County Superior Court, alleges that Ventura County Medical Center, then known as Ventura County General Hospital, knowingly or negligently placed children delivered there in the custody of strangers and di...

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