Doe, et al. v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., et al.
Jun 09, 2014OUTCOME: Arbitrator found Kaiser physicians negligent and made a net award of $2.2 million to the surviving family.
The Marcarian Law Firm represented the surviving family members (plaintiffs) in a lawsuit against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc., et al. for the wrongful death of a spouse and father. 56-year-old D ... oe received stent treatment at Kaiser for multiple coronary heart disease. Although the evidence showed that six of Doe’s arteries were occluded, Kaiser doctors performed an angioplasty and stent placement in only two of those arteries (circumflex and obtuse marginal). His family sued after he died of a sudden cardiac death. They argued that defendants treated the decedent too quickly and that the standard of care called for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery on all of the affected arteries.
