Personal Injury Law

Wrongful Death Of Sacramento Woman Caused By Medical Negligence, Part 2 of 5

By Moseley Collins, Esq.

The following blog entry is written from a defendant?s position as trial approaches. Reviewing this kind of briefing should help potential plaintiffs and clients better understand how parties in personal injury cases present such issues to the court.

(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this wrongful death/personal injury case and its proceedings.)

STATEMENT OF FACTS

Plaintiff Nancy White filed a complaint on April 27, 2009 alleging wrongful death relating to the treatment and care defendant provided to her mother and decedent, Alice Miller. According to plaintiff, defendant UMC's treatment at a cardiac catheterization laboratory and the patient's subsequent ICU admission to UMC resulted in plaintiff's mother's death on September 27, 2007.

Plaintiff alleges that she is the daughter of decedent. Plaintiff does not identify other heirs.

All five causes of action are titled "General Negligence," but based upon wrongful death allegations.

COMPLAINT ALLEGATIONS

Plaintiff's first cause of action alleges that UMC failed to provide the proper standard of care of surgical intervention and repair ; and that defendant failed to provide timely assistance to the medical emergency thereby not providing the proper standard of medical care for emergencies. For more information you are welcome to contact Sacramento personal injury lawyer, Moseley Collins.

Plaintiff's second cause of action sets forth additional theories. It is contended that UMC is legally obligated to provide adequate service providers, and to provide adequate surgical staff to respond to STAT requests for assistance ; and to restrict the permitted hours of operation to the times in which UMC has sufficient surgical staff to respond to STAT requests ; and that UMC's surgical staff did not respond to three pages for STAT assistance in a timely fashion that meets [the] acceptable standard of care.

Full post as published by Sacramento Injury Lawyer Blog on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).