Mike Allen
A company contracted with Carilion Clinic hospitals to interpret X-rays over the Internet has agreed to pay $500,000 to the estate of a Roanoke man who died after a physician failed to diagnose his internal bleeding.
In agreeing to the settlement, Nighthawk Radiology Services denies liability for any negligence in the death of 47-year-old Jay Lynn Brandon in 2007.
Brandon's death "was a huge tragedy," said Dan Frith, who filed the wrongful death lawsuit in September on behalf of Brandon's mother. "It didn't need to happen."
Brandon died from an aneurysm in his chest that ruptured. Had he received surgery, the odds are excellent that he would still be alive today, Frith said.
source: Roanoke.com
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