IOWA CITY, Iowa - The state is settling $3.7 million in malpractice lawsuits against the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
The Gazette reports $2 million will go to the family of a woman who died from an improper placement of a feeding tube, resulting in her death.
The state's also settling for two other surgeries after which one patient was left paraplegic and another with neurological deficits.
The Iowa Board of Appeals approved all three settlements on a 3-0 vote.
The state denied or disputed the allegations in the three separate lawsuits but agreed to settle them.
The Gazette reports that in the case of the woman's death the state agreed the settlement was in both parties’ “best interest.”