Family Sues Over Death of UCI Liver Patient
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The family of Ana Castillo filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the University of California regents this week in connection with UCI Medical Center’s liver transplant program.
Castillo, 55, died in September 2004 after languishing on a waiting list nearly four years.
The lawsuit, filed in Orange County Superior Court, alleges the university declined livers and misrepresented her chances of a transplant. The hospital did not have a full-time transplant surgeon and failed to meet the minimum number of annual transplants required since 2002.
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