Case Overview
Keller Rohrback L.L.P. and Sauder Schelkopf LLC, two nationally recognized law firms, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of over 2,600 individuals in Washington against MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital (“MultiCare”) in Puyallup, located in Pierce County, Washington. The complaint alleges that MultiCare negligently hired and inadequately supervised an emergency department nurse, Cora Weberg, who tampered with injectable pain medications and put the health and safety of 2,600 MultiCare patients at risk for bloodborne pathogens, such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV.
The litigation was filed after MultiCare’s safety alert, which urged over 2,600 of its patients, who were treated at MultiCare’s Puyallup hospital between August 2017 and March 2018, to get tested for Hepatitis C and other bloodborne pathogens.
Case Status
Plaintiffs have reached a $4 million classwide settlement with MultiCare to resolve this case. After the Superior Court granted preliminary approval of that settlement, the parties determined that minor modifications to the settlement agreement were necessary to ensure that the agreement accurately reflected who is included in the class and that individual notice of the settlement reaches as many class members as possible. On September 15, Plaintiffs submitted an amended settlement agreement to the Court, and on September 19, the Superior Court granted preliminary approval of that amended settlement agreement. Notice to class members will be transmitted in early October, at which point a website for the settlement will be established. When the website is operational, we will provide a link to it here. That website will provide a great deal of useful information for interested class members.
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