University of Iowa Physicians to Pay $2 Million After Patient Dies Following an MRI

The State Appeal Board agreed Monday to a $2 million settlement with the daughters of a Muscatine woman who died in 2018 from an allergic reaction to a contrast dye administered during an MRI at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

UI Physicians — a UI Carver College of Medicine-based medical and surgical group of 1,000-plus doctors, which owns an insurance company established to provide them medical malpractice coverage — will cover the full amount, as the group hasn’t yet reached its $15 million annual cap.

That cap recently went up from $9 million under a new seven-year deal with the state, which also upped the per-claim cap from $5 to $6 million. With the new settlement, UI Physicians has paid out $4.3 million for the year.

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