Wow. That seems like an amazingly low settlement compared to the recent one about the elderly woman who died at the nursing home in TN. Either the lawyers in MA settle low, or the plaintiff was reasonable. Maybe both. How refreshing would that be?
It’s not easy to process claims for older Americans. A family member was given someone’s else heart medication in error and he went into cardiac arrest 6 days later…..the pharmacist is not beholden to the same laws that doctors and hospitals are… and the nastiest comment that kept coming up was…”well, he’s 83 years old.. just how much longer should he have expected to live”?
Wow. That seems like an amazingly low settlement compared to the recent one about the elderly woman who died at the nursing home in TN. Either the lawyers in MA settle low, or the plaintiff was reasonable. Maybe both. How refreshing would that be?
Shocked at the low payout. They must have had a bad lawyer. Should have been in the millions!
It’s not easy to process claims for older Americans. A family member was given someone’s else heart medication in error and he went into cardiac arrest 6 days later…..the pharmacist is not beholden to the same laws that doctors and hospitals are… and the nastiest comment that kept coming up was…”well, he’s 83 years old.. just how much longer should he have expected to live”?
The attorney for the plaintiff in this case was Andrew C. Meyer Jr. and there is a more extensive article in the Boston Globe on this settlement and alarm fatigue issue. See it at: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/11/28/suit-over-cardiac-monitor-settled/GajKUFUgsjltsKMNWDpsuN/story.html