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
Keller Rohrback filed the Amended Complaint on August 2, 2018 The Court subsequently certified two classes:
All persons who were treated at the MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington, between August 4, 2017, and March 23, 2018, who received care from Cora Weberg, and received notification letters in April 2018 from MultiCare.
The “General Treatment Class”:
All persons who were treated at the MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington, between August 4, 2017, and March 23, 2018, and received notification letters in 2018 from MultiCare, but who did not receive care from Cora Weberg.
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MultiCare filed a Motion for Summary Judgment and sought dismissal of all claims of the General Treatment Class, which Plaintiffs opposed. The trial court ruled in favor of MultiCare and dismissed all claims of the General Treatment Class. The claims of the Weberg Treatment Class remained intact. Plaintiffs filed a Motion for Reconsideration, which the trial court denied.
Plaintiffs appealed the trial court’s dismissal of the General Treatment Class’s claims and the Washington Court of Appeals affirmed (agreed with) the trial court’s dismissal. Plaintiffs petitioned the Washington Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeals’ decision, and the Washington Supreme Court granted Plaintiffs’ petition. On January 18, 2024, the Washington Supreme Court reversed the dismissal of the General Treatment Class’s claims and allowed the claims to proceed. On remand back to the trial court, the court entered a new case schedule with a trial date scheduled for August 25, 2025.
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