Two years ago, the state of Louisiana quietly wrote a $1 million check to settle a Marksville woman's malpractice lawsuit against the Louisiana State University dental school and one of its oral surgeons over jaw joint implants that she claims disintegrated and caused her health problems. The settlement amount was made public Wednesday in response to a Times-Picayune lawsuit, marking the first time the state has revealed how much it paid out in any of the hundreds of suits that have resulted from the failure of jaw implants that were widely used in the 1970s and '80s.
Posted by Editor at September 18, 2003 05:11 PM