The State of Iowa has reached a $350,000 settlement agreement with a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics patient who sued two years ago after hip surgery left her with “femoral nerve palsy” — a sort of nerve dysfunction causing “weakness, numbness, and tingling pain.”The UI Physicians group will pay the full amount to Erin Jacobson, of Linn County, pending approval from the State Appeal Board.
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Mon, 02/08/2021 - 11:18am
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