Alvarez v. Various Providers
N/AOUTCOME: 9,000,000.00
A 14-year-old boy with leukemia was in remission. As his prospects brightened, his chemotherapy program was adjusted to a once-per-year maintenance dose. One day, the boy’s oncologist ordered a prescri ... ption for the chemotherapy medication and wrote the decimal point in the wrong place. Within two weeks the boy was dead – his organs ended up drying up from the inside out. Represented by Mr. Munoz, the victim’s family sued the doctor, the hospital, and the units in the hospital involved in administering care to the patient, including the nurses and the pharmacy. Initially the hospital offered $800,000.