Tickets Now Available For Theatre West Virginia Summer Series
Theatergoers can choose from productions of the Civil War drama "Honey in the Rock" or "Shrek the Musical."
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCharleston city officials will pay a man $650,000 after paramedics mistakenly gave him a numbing medication that is a controlled substance.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports city council members approved the settlement Monday night.
City attorney Paul Ellis says the settlement is probably the largest paid by the city in nearly a decade.
Ellis says 69-year-old Denzil Hager fell at his home in January and fractured his hip. While in a city ambulance, paramedics intended to give him saline intravenously, but mistakenly gave him lidocaine and he became unresponsive.
Hager’s attorney Brett Preston says Hager spent months in a rehabilitation facility, surviving with the use of a feeding tube.
Ellis says the city will pay $300,000 of the settlement and its insurance carrier will pay the remaining $350,000.