The Nonprofit
A nonprofit providing home healthcare to the elderly.
The Situation
One of its nurses misunderstood a client’s medication orders and gave the client an improper dosage of medicine that caused his death.
The ensuing litigation was protracted because the prescribing physician was also a defendant, along with the nonprofit and its nurse.
The Resolution
Eventually NIA was able to settle the nonprofit’s and the nurse’s exposures. Legal defense costs to get that result were incurred.
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