Dennis Quaid Settles Babies’ Overdose for $750,000
Dennis Quaid and his wife have agreed to a $750,000 settlement with a Los Angeles hospital that gave their newborn twins an overdose of blood thinner last year, The Associated Press reports.
A petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday shows that Cedars-Sinai is not admitting wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
The agreement must still be approved by a Los Angeles judge.
Two weeks after twins Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace were born (via a surrogate) in November 2007, they were accidentally given a massive overdose of the blood thinner Heparin and nearly died.
Cedars-Sinai — which was fined $25,000 by the California Department of Public Health — has since apologized.
“It was the scariest, most frightening day that I think either of us have ever been through, to come face to face with your little kids who – so young in that kind of situation,” Quaid said on 60 Minutes.
The babies are fine now, he told Usmagazine.com earlier this year.
“They just discovered each other,” he told Us in February. “That happens with twins – they actually don’t even acknowledge each other’s presence until right around this time. One of them looked at the other one last week and did a double-take; it was really startling like, ‘Who are you?’”
The Quaids also sued drug maker Baxter Healthcare Corp. in Illinois over the drug’s packaging, but that case has been dismissed.
