Verdicts & Settlements

$600,000 Settlement for a medical malpractice

CMC to pay $600G in death of 92-year-old woman Community Medical Center will pay $600,000 to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by the children of a 92-year-old Dunmore woman who died after she was allegedly strangulated in the restraining vest nurses put on her.

Community Medical Center will pay $600,000 to settle a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by the children of a 92-year-old Dunmore woman who died after she was allegedly strangulated in the restraining vest nurses put on her. Mary Besket died Dec. 1, 1998, after more than four months on oxygen and in a coma — a coma brought on, her family alleges, by oxygen deprivation to the brain. Mrs. Besket, who was put in restraints because she had wandered out of her bed earlier in the night, was found caught in her bed railing, her head close to the floor, just before dawn on June 22, 1998. The settlement was approved Thursday by Judge Terrence R. Nealon. Mrs. Besket & her sons, Joseph, of Cockeysville, Md., and John, of Silver Spring, Md., and daughter Ann Linko, South Scranton, will divide $329,889 equally, while their law firm of Munley, Munley & Cartwright will get $240,000, or 40 percent of the total. The remainder co...

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