10 August 2008
Hospital Held Accountable
08/16/08 12:29 Filed in: Medical
Malpractice
A
Utah jury recently held Lakeview Hospital
accountable for the death of a child. The tragedy
is that Lakeview Hospital, although advertising
itself and profiting from a representation that
they were a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days
a year emergency care facility, failed to have
staff on hand, or available for on-call to deal
with emergencies and, in fact, lacked any real
policy to deal with emergencies such as this family
faced. As a result, the unborn child suffered
oxygen deprivation and, although born alive, was
severely brain damaged and lived for only
approximately one year. The jury refused to let
Lakeview Hospital dodge justice and found that the
damage done to the family, the pain, suffering and
wrongful death of this young soul could only be
corrected through a verdict over $800,000 in
general damages. Congratulations to the jury who
refused to buy into the Defense attorneys &
Lakeview Hospital’s attempts to avoid justice and
condolences to the family who lost so much because
of Lakeview Hospital’s medical malpractice.