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.
