4 More Lawsuits Filed Over UCI Liver Program
Four more lawsuits stemming from the failure of UCI Medical Center’s liver transplant program were filed Friday against the University of California.
Three of the claims in Orange County Superior Court were filed by families of patients who died while waiting for transplants; the fourth involves a patient who didn’t receive a liver.
More than 50 lawsuits stemming from the program have been filed.
UCI closed the program in November after The Times reported that 32 patients died while waiting for transplants during a period when the medical center turned down scores of viable livers, often because no surgeon was available to perform the operations.
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