Courts
One Sunday evening, a 3-year-old girl disappeared from her North Las Vegas foster home and reappeared in Mexico the next morning.
University Medical Center agreed on Friday to pay $225,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a Las Vegas woman who claimed emergency room personnel refused to treat her in 2009 when she arrived at the county-run hospital in labor.
A lawyer for one of two drug companies being sued over a hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas said Friday that clinics — not drug manufacturers or distributors — were responsible for the spread of the disease either by misusing an anesthetic or not cleaning medical equipment.
A lawyer for hepatitis C patients suing two drug companies over an outbreak in Las Vegas told a jury Thursday that company officials purposely sold large containers of an anesthetic to clinics despite knowing it might lead nurses to reuse and contaminate the vials.
A prosecutor laid out stunning details in court Thursday about the district attorney’s suicide-arson case against indicted construction defects lawyer Nancy Quon.