Courts
One Sunday evening, a 3-year-old girl disappeared from her North Las Vegas foster home and reappeared in Mexico the next morning.
University Medical Center agreed on Friday to pay $225,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a Las Vegas woman who claimed emergency room personnel refused to treat her in 2009 when she arrived at the county-run hospital in labor.
A lawyer for one of two drug companies being sued over a hepatitis C outbreak in Las Vegas said Friday that clinics — not drug manufacturers or distributors — were responsible for the spread of the disease either by misusing an anesthetic or not cleaning medical equipment.
