Posted on 11/12/2014 11:10:29 AM PST by bgill
The hospital that treated the only Ebola patient to die in the United States will pay his relatives an undisclosed sum and create a charitable foundation in his name, the family's attorney said Wednesday. The agreement heads off a lawsuit from relatives of Thomas Eric Duncan, who died Oct. 8 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. Attorney Les Weisbrod declined to say at a news conference how much money the family would receive but said the settlement was a "very good deal" that would provide for Duncan's parents and his four children. Weisbrod also said Presbyterian hospital was not charging Duncan's family for his medical treatment. The foundation will assist efforts to fight Ebola in Liberia, he said.
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Do they get the tee shirt sale rights too?
I don’t get it. Why pay anything?
Excellent. So the family will begin paying for his treatment?
What will the two nurses get for almost dying For him?
So not only do they get a million dollars worth of medical services written off (I presume) but they are being paid cash by the hospital? Where can I get me some Ebola?
Did they trademark his name yet?
That's the ticket!
My first question would be: how much did the family pay the hospital in this settlement? Surely the hospital sacrificed enough already.
Oh my gawd....run them back to Afrika
they should sue him for bringing the disease to the US
Affirmative action extortion money.
The hospital, by giving in to the extortion, only made it more difficult for the next victim of this sort of shakedown.
Instead of reaching a settlement, the family should have been sued for the hospital bill. Then booted out of the country.
If the liar from Liberia didn’t mention specifically that he had been in Liberia and been thrown up on by a woman who died the same day of Ebola, I’m not sure why the liar’s family would deserve anything. If his report was limited to a vague “traveled to Africa” and no mention of exposure, when he knew better, his death was his own fault. I wouldn’t even give them a free t-shirt or a pen with the hospital name and address.
We need to stop settling with parasites and make the greedy trial lawyers work for the money they want to steal. Fighting evil, even in its petty forms, is worth the effort.
Because any complaint filed by the family against the hospital would have been vicious, full of allegations about sending Duncan home the first time, the conditions of his care when re-admitted, etc., and portraying Texas Presbyterian as an incompetent hospital. The press would pick up on those allegations, which could crush the hospital. Even if the hospital could fight back against the family's allegations during the lawsuit itself, it could be too late.
Frankly, regardless of the merits of the case, settling this one early was a no-brainer for the hospital.
At the very least, now that his family has deep pockets, I'd like to see the two nurses who contracted ebola from providing his care relieve his family memebers of their ill-gotten gains. No doubt there are attornies out there who would happy to represent them on contingency.
“What will the two nurses get for almost dying for him?”
My understanding is that having survived ebola they will get declining health and an earlier death.
Indeed. ANY and ALL past 'mistakes' would likewise be brought front and center in court, in fact, leaked well before being introduced as evidence.
fine let the hospital pay for not admitting the liar when they first should have, now lets all file a class action suit against the family for ten times that for lying and knowingly importing biohazardous material into the united states(terrorism?) without proper biohazard safety procedures.
Nothing to say. It’s too disgusting.
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