Wisconsin Hospital Owes $8 Million for Failing to Prevent Attack

Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin must pay $8 million damages to the family of a woman attacked by a person in its waiting room who was known to present a security risk, a state appeals court said.

The facility acted negligently with respect to an attack on Mary Miceli-Krupka by failing to alert security when another family, including a 16-year-old identified as “Jade,” entered the hospital, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals said in an unpublished opinion Thursday. CHW staff, knowing Jade and her family had violently disrupted care in the past, had deemed the family a security risk, flagged their charts ...