Legal Question in Medical Malpractice in Nevada

Negligence & Incompetence in ER of teaching hospital

My daughter was a passenger injured in an auto accident and taken by ambulance to the trauma wing of a large teaching hospital. From the scene of the accident and for her entire stay at trauma my daughter complained that her chest was broken, she heard it & felt it snap. She felt that a neck brace would crack her chest even more and they let her in the ambulance without neck restraint because of her broken chest. When she got to trama center she kept on crying that her chest was broken, everything else was okay. She had a bed side x-ray of her chest twice and they said they couldn't see anything. Then they sent her for cat scan, the techn put her in a CAT scan chamber and left her there for quite some time while she taught a class and proceeded to give her a brain cat scan instead of a chest cat scan and said that was procedure and broken bones in her chest would show up. They discharged her crying that her chest was broken and she should stay but they would not admit her. Afer 2 months her pain was getting worse and she had a chest MRI that showed 2 severly broken bones in her chest that got worse. She has a PI attorney who says you can't sue both. Does she have a case against the hospital? Please advise! A Worried Mother


Asked on 1/03/07, 5:41 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
James Smith James E. Smith Ltd.

Re: Negligence & Incompetence in ER of teaching hospital

If the hospital is UMC they have immunity so that it can only be sued up to $50,000. This is not enough to justify investment in a lawsuit against UMC for most attorneys.

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Answered on 1/03/07, 5:46 pm


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