Here are the legal details: Case Type: Civil Petition – Other (General Jurisdiction) Case#: BS118282 CASE NAME: DENNIS QUAID ET AL VS CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER Parties: CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER – Def\/Res,QUAID DENNIS – PL\/PET,QUAID KIMBERLY – PL\/PET Attorneys: PIVO KENNETH R. ESQ. – Attorney for PL\/PET Date Filed: 12\/15\/2008<\/p>\n
From the Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly reached a settlement with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for $750,000 over a medication error last year that nearly killed the couple’s twin infants, according to papers filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.<\/p>\n Nurses at the hospital mistakenly gave twins Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace 1,000 times the recommended dose of the blood thinner heparin, leaving them vulnerable to uncontrolled bleeding and leaving them, for a time, in critical condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are the legal details: Case Type: Civil Petition – Other (General Jurisdiction) Case#: BS118282 CASE NAME: DENNIS QUAID ET AL VS CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER Parties: CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER – Def\/Res,QUAID DENNIS – PL\/PET,QUAID KIMBERLY – PL\/PET Attorneys: PIVO KENNETH … Continue reading