Articles Tagged: State Appeal Board

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.

To settle a lawsuit scheduled for trial in May, the Iowa Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the family of one of two Iowa State University students who died three years ago on Little Wall Lake during a crew club accident.

A week after a Story County judge denied Iowa State University’s request the court dismiss a lawsuit from the family of a student who died three years ago in a crew club accident, the parties have agreed to settle the case — negating the need for a trial.

Although Theresa Sault-Brill sought $95,000 from the university to remedy what she characterized as “significant lost wages” and “emotional distress,” she signed a $20,000 settlement March 28 and agreed not to pursue or accept any future UI employment.

The University of Iowa has agreed to pay a Johnson County family $2 million to settle a lawsuit involving accusations of negligence in the 2009 delivery of their son, who “showed signs immediately of injury to his right arm” and has failed to regain full mobility.