A new pilot scheme allowing fathers to stay overnight at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after their babies are born will benefit only those who can afford or are allotted a private room.
Guidelines...
The Auditor-General’s investigation into the finances of the Bermuda Hospitals Board was triggered by a “hidden” $4 million it set aside to pay a patient who was paralysed while in its care.
The board...
A friend and former colleague of Thomas Hofer spoke yesterday of how saddened he was that the quadriplegic’s lawsuit against the hospital where he was paralysed had collapsed.
Gerhard Lipp, who worked...
Former health minister Michael Scott has accused hospital authorities of “aggressive” tactics in trying to rid themselves of a lawsuit from a man who was paralysed while in their care.
The Opposition ...
Corporate lawyers are to volunteer their time to help local charities.
The Centre on Philanthropy, an umbrella organisation for the third sector, is offering a two-hour pro bono corporate legal clinic...
Hospital chiefs will seek legal costs from a quadriplegic who was paralysed after an accident at Bermuda’s only mental hospital.
Thomas Hofer, 52, recently lost an 18-year legal battle to sue the Berm...
Auditor-General Heather Jacobs Matthews has pledged to complete four years’ worth of outstanding annual reports from her office by the time she retires next month.
The law requires that the reports ar...
Bermuda Hospitals Board has gone public on its use of a contrast dye which is being investigated in the United States for potential harmful effects.
The board, which recently apologised and paid compe...
Bermuda Hospitals Board has apologised and paid compensation to a widower whose late wife was given a substance which was the subject of public health warnings and may have contributed to her death.
A...
Althea Overbey thought she had experienced a miracle after surviving risky surgery to remove a brain tumour just a few months after her son was born in 1985.
Now, 30 years later, she is convinced she ...
