Articles Tagged: State Appeal Board

The state of Iowa will consider paying $2 million to the daughters of a Muscatine woman who died during an MRI at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in 2018 from an allergic reaction to the contrast dye administered intravenously.

The State Appeal Board on Tuesday agreed to pay $2.52 million to settle six lawsuits against University of Iowa Health Care — with the university paying most of that total under a new agreement inked last week upping the cap on what doctors and their insurance will cover.

Over the past decade, the state of Iowa has paid over $108 million out of the general fund to settle claims against it.

The governor’s office agreed to allow a state District Court to resolve any future open records disputes with three plaintiffs that may arise over the next year.

Wrapping up a medical drama that started 12 years ago in a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics operating room, the State Appeal Board on Monday agreed to settle a 2020 lawsuit from a former employee accusing UIHC of improperly sharing details of an incident with prospective employers.

A Le Claire mother is suing the state, accusing University of Iowa physicians of perforating her bowel and charring her rectum during a surgical procedure – leaving her permanently impaired and unable to care for her two sons to the same degree she was pre-surgery.

The State of Iowa on Monday agreed to pay $2 million to settle a “wrongful death” claim with the family of an Iowa State University student who died last year in a Crew Club accident after the group “failed to follow critical health and safety procedures.”

The state has agreed to pay a North Liberty couple nearly $4 million after their toddler son died in 2018 from an undiagnosed strep infection following days of visits to University of Iowa-affiliated clinics and facilities.

State Appeal Board denies claims from 52 Fort Madison inmates who said they had various symptoms from being administered six times the proper dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

University of Iowa Physicians – a medical and surgical group based in its Carver College of Medicine – has agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the North Liberty wife of a patient who died in August 2015 of complications from a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor.

The state has agreed to a $7.5 million medical malpractice settlement after a 41-year-old Davenport man suffered severe life-limiting impairments following care at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for a bleeding brain tumor about five years ago.

In lawsuit-related settlements and judgments for the budget year that ended Thursday, Iowa paid a total $22.3 million — including $6.1 million involving Board of Regents institutions, or about 27 percent.

The State of Iowa has agreed to pay the former director of a University of Iowa program for students with disabilities $325,000 to settle her lawsuit accusing the institution and Board of Regents of age and gender discrimination and of violating her civil rights for equal pay.

Four years after the University of Iowa began vehemently denying allegations it discriminated against a student organization the campus deregistered for barring an openly-gay member from becoming a leader, the state will pay the law firm representing the student group nearly $2 million.

The state on Monday agreed to pay from its general fund nearly $400,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by University of Iowa female athletes contending Title IX violations in the UI’s announced plans last year to cut women’s swimming and diving as part of its COVID-19 response.