Patient Safety | 06.01.23
Hospital Holds on to $2.8 Million Award Against Staffing Firm
by Bloomberg Law
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that staffing firm U.S. Nursing Corp. must pay Appalachian Regional Healthcare Inc. more than $2.8 million after a jury found that negligence by one of the staffing firm's nurses exacerbated a patient's injuries. The Sixth Circuit also found that a federal trial judge in Kentucky did not abuse his discretion by denying the staffing firm a new trial in the hospital's suit to recover the money it paid to settle a personal injury action. Although evidence that the nurse may have moved the patient was excluded, the Sixth Circuit determined that it likely would not have led the jury to reach a different verdict.
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