{"id":33435,"date":"2013-03-23T00:06:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T07:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=33435"},"modified":"2013-03-23T00:24:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T07:24:16","slug":"jury-awards-millions-to-woman-in-palmdale-regional-medical-malpractice-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/03\/23\/jury-awards-millions-to-woman-in-palmdale-regional-medical-malpractice-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury awards millions to woman in Palmdale Regional Medical malpractice suit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Palmdale<\/a><\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2013 A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Friday returned a verdict in favor of a 26-year-old woman who suffered severe brain injuries after treatment at Palmdale Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n

The jury awarded Dioresly Lora<\/strong> $15 million, according to her attorney Bruce G. Fagel, M.D., J.D<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe money ensures that she will receive the proper, necessary care for her condition,\u201d Fagel said.<\/p>\n

Lora is currently in a \u201cpersistent vegetative state\u201d at a neurocare facility in Chatsworth that costs about $1,200 a day, Fagel said.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit claimed Lora, who was a Medi-Cal patient, suffered severe permanent brain injuries after being treated at Palmdale Regional Medical Center in late 2011.<\/p>\n

Lora was admitted to the emergency room complaining of shortness of breath on November 8, 2011. After treatment in the emergency room for an exacerbation of asthma, Lora was admitted to the telemetry unit of the hospital where she suffered a cardio pulmonary arrest, Fagel said.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit claimed the incident happened because the hospital failed to properly monitor Lora\u2019s respiratory condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe doctor had given an order for continuous monitoring of her oxygen saturation using a monitor which is similar to an EKG monitor that\u2019s used for telemetry units,\u201d Fagel said, adding that the nurses did not follow this order.<\/p>\n

The jury rejected the hospital\u2019s claim that Lora\u2019s cardio pulmonary arrest was due to an unexpected allergic reaction to medication that she was given that morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was scary is that the nurses in trying to defend the case basically claimed that they had the authority to order all sorts of tests and do all sorts of things without the doctor\u2019s input, and yet they didn\u2019t want to take responsibility for not following a specific doctor\u2019s orders,\u201d Fagel said.<\/p>\n

Lora, who moved to Palmdale to be with her boyfriend in 2009, had just completed her college degree about four months before the incident. A day after the incident, Lora\u2019s 61-year-old mother moved from their hometown in Virginia to provide around-the-clock support to her daughter, Fagel said.<\/p>\n

Hortensia Lora<\/strong> filed the lawsuit in late November 2011 on her daughter\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

The trial was supposed to start on Nov. 15, 2012 at the Antelope Valley courthouse, but due to court congestion and the length of the trial, the case was transferred to a downtown Los Angeles courtroom, Fagel said. \u00a0The trial began on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES \u2013 A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Friday returned a verdict in favor of a 26-year-old woman who suffered severe brain injuries after treatment at Palmdale Regional Medical Center. The jury awarded Dioresly Lora $15 million, according to her attorney Bruce G. Fagel, M.D., J.D. \u201cThe money ensures that she will receive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}