Dennis Quaid settles for USD 750,000 over medication error

Washington, Dec 17: Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid and wife have settled for 750,000 dollars with a Los Angeles hospital that gave their newborn twins an overdose of blood thinner last year.

A petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday shows that Cedars-Sinai hospital is not admitting wrongdoing as part of the settlement. It has to be approved by a Los Angeles judge. Two weeks after twins Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace were born (via a surrogate) in November 2007, the hospital mistakenly gave a massive overdose of the blood thinner Heparin, which nearly killed them. Cedars-Sinai, which was fined 25,000 dollars by the California Department of Public Health, has since apologized. "It was the scariest, most frightening day that I think either of us have ever been through, to come face to face with your little kids who - so young in that kind of situation," Usmagazine.com quoted Quaid as saying on 60 Minutes. ANI