Santa Rosa Nursing Home Agrees To Pay $1 Million In Wrongful Death Settlement
The patient's family alleged her death was the result of complications of a bedsore. News outlets also look at legal issues in the death of a Santa Rita jail inmate and cancer care centers' allegations against Genentech.
The Press Democrat:
Emeritus at Santa Rosa Nursing Home To Pay $1M In Settlement
A high-end Santa Rosa nursing home has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a wrongful death and elder abuse lawsuit alleging it allowed a patient to die from complications of a bedsore, attorneys said Tuesday. Emeritus at Santa Rosa, since renamed Brookdale Fountaingrove, agreed to the payout in the 2013 death of Eleanor Buckingham, 87. (Payne, 2/23)
Bay Area News Group:
Oakland: Family Sues County And Health Care Provider In Inmate's Death
In an emotional news conference on the courthouse steps, the family of a Hayward man who died from an asthma attack in Santa Rita Jail this summer announced on Tuesday it was filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and the jail's health care provider. (Lawton, 2/23)
The San Francisco Business Times:
Cancer Centers Claim Genetech Shipped Less Cancer Drug Herceptin Than Promised
Nine cancer care centers in seven states claim in a flurry of lawsuits that Genentech Inc. shipped less of its popular breast cancer-fighting drug Herceptin than labeled. The suits, filed in New York, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, Minnesota and Oklahoma, say vials of freeze-dried Herceptin when mixed with a liquid failed to produce the correct concentration of the drug, causing the cancer care centers to buy additional vials. A Genentech spokeswoman said the South San Francisco-based company declined to comment, (Leuty, 2/23)