A young married woman who had two young boys was admitted to her local hospital for an infection of her wound site after a resent spine surgery. She needed and IV line established so she could receive fluids and her needed antibiotics to cure her infection. Had this happened she would have been fine, the infection cured by these medications. Unfortunately, the nursing staff delayed placing the IV line during the day and the entire evening. By morning her condition had worsened and she never recovered, eventually dying of her infection which had then shut down her important organs.
$3.5 million Settlement Jane Doe v. ABC Hospital Columbus, Ohio