Brianna Aguierre, the nurse who spoke out against Dallas Presbyterian Hospital’s failure to safely treat Ebola, reached the end of her quarantine and joined TODAY’s Erica Hill to discuss preparing to head back to work.
An emergency room nurse who treated a fellow nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Dallas is taking time off and retained a noted Fort Lauderdale plaintiffs firm rather than return to work. Briana Aguirre, 30, contacted Robert W. Kelley of the Kelley/Uustal firm after concluding Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital was not adequately protecting staff…
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse Briana Aguirre, who cared for her friend and co-worker Nina Pham after she tested positive for the Ebola virus, says she can no longer defend her hospital over how she claims it responded to the disease once Thomas Eric Duncan arrived. “I watched them violate basic principles of nursing,” Aguirre told…
Nurse Briana Aguirre works at Texas Presbyterian Hospital, though her future there is now uncertain. That’s because she is speaking out about what she says she’s seen and experienced during the treatment of Ebola patient Thomas Duncan and others. She speaks to Anderson with her attorney Bob Kelly. Ms. Aguirre describes chaos, a lack of training…
A lawyer has won a medical malpractice lawsuit over the death of his father, a former prominent Broward County civic leader, after a judge ruled that hospital officials had concealed evidence in the case. The decision eliminated the hospital’s defense and forced the suit to be settled for an undisclosed amount. “It’s unfortunate that the taxpayers’ money was…
A lawyer has won a medical malpractice lawsuit over the death of his father, a former prominent Broward County civic leader, after a judge ruled that hospital officials had concealed evidence in the case. The decision eliminated the hospital’s defense and forced the suit to be settled for an undisclosed amount. “It’s unfortunate that the taxpayers’ money was…
The North Broward Hospital District settled a medical malpractice lawsuit after losing its defenses due to discovery violations about the death of a Fort Lauderdale attorney’s father. The decision eliminated the hospital’s defense and forced the suit to be settled for an undisclosed amount. “It’s unfortunate that the taxpayers’…
“Detroit is lying, and people are dying,” said Robert Kelley, a Florida attorney who has battled car companies in court, and who championed the largest settlement ever won against a car company. In the past week alone: A SAFE Research* report revealed that Ford knowingly sold Explorers that did not meet government rollover standards; A jury in Florida…
General Motors says it will appeal a $33 million jury decision in a case over a post-collision fuel-tank fire in a 1983 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser. Florida schoolteachers Robert and Constance McGee, their daughter Kelly and son Shane were vacationing in Virginia and were riding in the station wagon when the crash occurred in July 1991. The wagon was…