Articles Tagged: State Appeal Board

University of Iowa Health Care has agreed to pay $1.5 million to a Scott County woman who nearly a decade ago in 2017 suffered a lacerated ureter near her bladder during surgery for perforated diverticulosis.

The State of Iowa has agreed to pay $600,000 to a Peosta woman who accidentally shot herself in the leg during an August 2015 firearms training at the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy.

University of Iowa Health Care has agreed to a $3.5 million settlement with the family of an infant who — following days of intense labor a decade ago — was born with brain damage and physical impairment, making her “permanently dependent upon others for her care.”

University of Iowa Health Care has agreed to pay $4.2 million to the mother of a 38-year-old Johnson County man who — while experiencing a psychotic break in the emergency room — was placed in such extreme restraints that he suffered a heart attack and “catastrophic and permanent brain injuries.”

A former state public health spokeswoman alleged she was fired in 2020 for fulfilling open records requests to journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The payment is one of the final pieces of a settlement agreement over a 2023 lawsuit that claimed the State of Iowa for decades had ‘disregarded the lack of mental and behavioral health services’ for children

University of Iowa Health Care is paying a total of $3.5 million to settle two malpractice lawsuits — including one involving a 63-year-old Dubuque man who died in the operating room during a surgery to repair his broken leg.

In addition to $10 million Iowa paid two siblings of a teenage girl who died of starvation in the care of her adoptive parents in 2017, the state has agreed to pay a third sibling $4.2 million after being “severely physically abused, neglected, and tortured.”

After two-plus years fighting a medical negligence lawsuit involving the death of a 75-year-old University of Iowa cancer patient — who was found unresponsive on the floor next to her inpatient bed three days postsurgery — the state has negotiated a settlement to pay the family $1.5 million.

The State of Iowa has agreed to pay $85,000 to the Cedar Rapids family of a 3-year-old boy who was bit in the ear by a bomb-sniffing K9 patrolling Kinnick Stadium during a home Hawkeye football game in September 2022.

The State of Iowa has agreed to pay $5.2 million to the family of a 21-year-old Wisconsin woman who was run over and killed by a state-owned unattended tractor while she was sunbathing at Clear Lake State Park in July 2020.

The State Appeal Board approved the settlements Tuesday.

Nearly seven years after a Mt. Pleasant man underwent a coronary artery bypass graft at University of Iowa Health Care in January 2018, UIHC has agreed to pay him $250,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging negligence.

University of Iowa Health Care will pay $1.2 million to the parents of a 17-year-old Iowa City High School senior who died unexpectedly in July 2020 after several UIHC providers mistook her symptoms of a developing pulmonary embolism as COVID.

Nearly six years after a University of Iowa Cambus slipped on icy roads in Coralville and veered into the oncoming lane, hitting another vehicle and injuring the woman inside, the state has agreed to settle a resulting lawsuit for $68,000.