San Francisco County Hospital Negligence Claims
A city-run hospital in San Francisco has been accused of negligence and malpractice by the family of a patient who died after going missing from her room. The family of Lynne Spalding plans to file a lawsuit against the hospital. In their suit, the family says that a failure to search the stairwell where Spalding was found led to her death.
The family San Francisco County Hospital Negligence Claims to adequately supervise staff, and they also allege that the hospital improperly searched for Spalding. According to the lawsuit, a nurse found Spalding’s body on October 8th, more than two weeks after she disappeared from her room at the hospital. The lawsuit says that the nurse reported finding Spalding’s body to a supervisor, but the supervisor did not follow up on the report. The lawsuit also alleges that the hospital did not check the stairwell for any signs of a body, and that it did not use its own security camera system to scan the area.
Medical Malpractice Injuries and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
The attorneys at Walkup Melodia have a long history of successfully representing the families of victims of medical malpractice. This includes cases against doctors, nurses, HMOs and hospitals. In one case, our medical malpractice lawyers won a $32 million jury verdict in Superior Court on behalf of an 18-year-old man who suffered a stroke at a San Francisco hospital because doctors there failed to get him immediate specialized stroke care. The patient was left paralyzed and unable to communicate, and his lifetime of disabilities could have been avoided if he had received prompt treatment.
One of the most important parts of a medical malpractice case is proving that a health care provider acted below the “standard of care.” This standard of care refers to the level of skill and knowledge that would be expected of someone with similar training and experience. A standard negligence case is much simpler, as the injured party only needs to show that a responsible party failed to act reasonably and that their action caused harm.
A hospital’s lien on indigent patients’ tort recovery from third parties is subject to a pro rata reduction commensurate with the patient’s attorney fees in the third-party litigation.
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