March 29, 2024

Iowa hospital facing three wrongful-death lawsuits

DENISON — A small western Iowa hospital is facing a spate of wrongful death lawsuits. Two of the lawsuits against Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison were filed within the last two weeks. Another was filed last year. The hospital gained attention last year when it unsuccessfully tried to keep a $500,000 wrongful-death settlement from being made public. One of the three pending lawsuits claims a surgeon ignored warnings that a morbidly obese man could not be safely sedated.