$4 Million

Death of a forty-five year old wife and mother of two. A Type 1 diabetic was brought by paramedics to the emergency room with an extremely elevated glucose level. Plaintiff contended the emergency room nurses failed to properly triage the patient as "urgent" and failed to properly monitor her physical condition with advance warning alarms. As a result, Plaintiff suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest in the emergency room due to undiagnosed and untreated diabetic ketoacidosis.