Brooklyn, NY – A couple who experienced a stillbirth at Maimonides Medical Center has sued the hospital for giving them the wrong remains of what they thought was their four-month-old unborn son.
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The New York Post (http://bit.ly/1d8hILw) reports William Werner and Abaline Nieves cremated and held a funeral for the wrong remains and slapped Maimonides with a $1 million suit.
Nieves experienced complications with her pregnancy in May 2013 and went to Maimonides. Doctors induced labor, resulting in the death of the fetus.
Nieves and her fiancé, Werner, held a service for the cremated ashes. Shortly after, they received a call from Maimonides requesting a meeting. They were then notified that their cremated ashes were not their sons, and that the body was still in the morgue.
In a written statement, to VIN News Eileen Tynion, Vice President of Public Affairs for Maimonides Medical Center declined to comment saying that Maimonides Medical Center is prohibited by HIPAA laws from releasing protected patient information.
So who was cremated? I guess a second law suit is on the way from the other babies family.
The hospital made a mistake — one the couple will surely get over, and this has to cost $1,000,000! How insane! I hope it gets thrown out.
She is suing??? – what about the family of the other remains that she cremated???
What damages did they incur that amount to 1 million dollars?
What a sad story
OMG! What about the other parents? Didn’t they come to claim their baby? I guess it was not a Jewish baby (hopefully) which would have been buried the same day.
A 4 month old unborn son? He was 4 months old and also unborn? How’s that?
#2 3 & 4. Gd forbid you should ever lose a child? You never get over even a first trimester miscarriage. They have been emotionally hurt. They laid their son to rest and now find out he was just laying in a morgue. How would you feel if that was your child? Would you feel differently if they had jewish last names?
A still birth means a full term/viable pregnancy but the child is born dead. A live birth is recorded, even if a baby only lives an hour or so. I think this means the child was not released to the parents for four months. It’s difficult to tell exactly what is meant because the article is so ambiguous & badly written.
And I agree, there are expenses incurred in cremation, not to mention the terrible mental anguish of the parents. I know, my children R”L lost a number of pregnancies, both early and late, including twins. Everyone feels the pain. I feel very badly for this couple, for the parents of the cremated child, and I am shocked at the callousness of some VIN posters.