Actor James Woods has settled a medical malpractice lawsuitagainst the Rhode Island hospital where his brother died.

The actor filed the wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of hisbrother’s children after their father died on a gurney in the hallway of KentHospital in Rhode Island. Michael Woods went to the hospital on July 26, 2006complaining of a sore throat and vomiting. Dr. Kelli Naylor ordered an EKGwhich returned “abnormal” results. Naylor ordered Woods be placed on a cardiacmonitor, however he was never placed on the monitor and died in the hallway.

The two parties finally reached a financial settlement afterthree years of litigation on Monday night. Woods described the settlement assomething that “both sides are comfortable with.” The settlement includes thecreation of the Michael J. Woods Institute at Kent Hospital.

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A former Miss Argentina died Sunday from complicationsarising from plastic surgery.

37 year-old Solange Magnano died in a hospital after beingtransferred from a clinic where she underwent an elective surgery on herbuttocks on Wednesday.  Magnano, amother of 8 year-old twins, died of a pulmonary embolism three days after agluteoplasty, a procedure where implants are placed in the buttocks.  Officials say the injected liquid wentinto her lungs and brain.

Magnano won the crown of Miss Argentina in 1994 and remainedpopular throught the country to this day. Magnano’s close friend Roberto Piazzasaid of her death “a woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightlyfirmer behind.”

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U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, held a news conference withthe victims of medical errors to discuss medical malpractice awards caps.

Barley appeared at a Washington, D.C. American Associationof Justice event and called awards caps “unfair.” Braley claimed that incertain states where the cap hasn’t been adjusted for inflation, victims areleft in financial turmoil. He said it is “important to give another side of thestory and talk about the real human cost of medical errors.”

Republicans have been calling for president Obama to includelawsuit reform in his health-care proposals. Barley was critical of thispressure, he maintained that the “best way to reduce the cost of medicalmalpractice claims is to reduce medical errors.”

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The family of a Florida girl who died from an anesthesia complication has filed a medical malpractice suit against the plastic surgeon and anesthesiologist who performed the out-patient procedure.

According to the lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County, by the family of 18-year-old Stephanie Kuleba, the plastic surgeon and anesthesiologist failed to meet acceptable medicalstandards when Kuleba suffered a potentially fatal reaction to anesthesia during corrective breast surgery in March 2008.

The lawsuit alleges that doctor Steven Schuster and anesthesiologist Peter Warheit failed to recognize the symptoms of malignant hyperthermia and failed to administer the proper treatment to save Kuleba’s life.

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