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. Although the Superior Court has granted preliminary approval of that settlement, the parties have determined that minor modifications to the settlement agreement are necessary to ensure that the agreement accurately reflects who is included in the class and that individual notice of the settlement reaches as many class members as possible. The parties will file the amended settlement agreement with the court, as well as a motion seeking preliminary approval of it, by September 19. If and when the court approves the amended settlement agreement, an update will be provided on this webpage.
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