Hospital Sued Over NSF
An NSF victim has filed suit against St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo. for using a gadolinium contrast dye during his MRI and MRA procedures. The plaintiff - who suffered from kidney disease - was administered a gadolinium based contrast dye at St. Luke’s several times starting in 2005, and was diagnosed with NSF in early 2007.
The lawsuit alleges that the hospital was negligent when it administered gadolinium contrast dyes to a patient with renal failure. The suit also asserts that the unknown makers of the dyes are strictly liable for the patient’s injury because they defectively designed the contrast agents and knowingly failed to warn consumers about the health risks. Finally, the suit alleges, the products were negligently designed and that the companies negligently and fraudulently represented to patients that they were safe.
