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Family Awarded $2.9 Million Settlement After Son Killed by Oxygen Tank

By Steven M. Levin and John J. Perconti

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The family of a 6-year-old boy who wrongfully died after he was struck in the head by an oxygen tank reached a $2.9 million settlement with the hospital. The boy was lying in an MRI chamber when the machine?s magnets pulled in a metal tank that a staff member had brought into the MRI?s magnetic field. The victim?s family then filed a medical malpractice lawsuit. This death is one of the 98,000 deaths that occur due to medical error. To learn more about the medical error, please click the link.

Full post as published by Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).

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