Category Archives: Kaiser malpractice arbitration
Kaiser Malpractice Injury: Nursing Negligence Causes Death
Oakland Nurse’s Error is Determined Cause of Death The San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that a patient at Kaiser hospital in Oakland died due to a nurse’s error in administering intravenous medication. Although the Chronicle’s initial story about this malpractice incident did not describe the error, later news reports said that the nurse, a… Read More »
California Kaiser Malpractice Claims – Do You Have to Arbitrate?
In California, most Kaiser Permanente medical malpractice claims are normally heard in a private arbitration, rather than proceeding in court. This is due to the Kaiser arbitration agreement, which calls for arbitration in Kaiser’s own system, under their own rules. Arbitration is a system where cases are heard with the same procedural rules as… Read More »
