The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and its linen supplier, Paris Cleaners Inc., have finalized a settlement agreement with six plaintiffs in a lawsuit after mold-linked fatalities in 2014 and 2015, according to an article on the Trib Live website.
The lawsuits accused UPMC and Paris Cleaners of negligence, medical malpractice and wrongful death in the cases of several organ transplant and cancer patients who contracted fungal infections.
Two other lawsuits filed on behalf of transplant patients who died after contracting fungal infections were settled for $1.35 million each in 2016.
Attorneys for families suing UPMC added Paris Cleaners as a defendant in January 2017 after an internal UPMC report surfaced indicating samples taken from hospital bed linens contained the same type of mold that infected patients.
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