Medical Malpractice Suit Settled for Family of Slain Reporter
David Rosenbaum, 63, was a reporter with the New York Times’ Washington bureau. In January 2006 he was beaten with a pipe while being mugged near his home just days after he had retired. The emergency workers who responded to the scene initially thought Rosenbaum had been drunk and didn’t try to determine whether he was injured. The driver of the ambulance did not take Rosenbaum to the closest hospital, but took him to a hospital almost two miles out of the way. Rosenbaum’s family filed a lawsuit against the Howard University Hospital in DC and the emergency workers accusing them of negligence and medical malpractice. The hospital settled for an undisclosed amount of money.
