A medical error costs Arnas Brotzu 1.6 million. And it could have been much worse: the sum was proposed, and accepted, to close a settlement on a damage claim that was much higher.
The story began when on 26 May 2022 a woman presented a request for "compensation for the damage allegedly suffered due to malpractice". In the hospital papers the name and further details are omitted for privacy. Brotzu immediately called the insurance company Relyens Mutual Insurance into question, which entrusted an appraisal to a medical examiner.
In March 2023, the Company Claims Evaluation Committee was activated. And it emerged that for Brotzu there was a high risk of losing in the event of a court battle, "with a further increase in costs borne by the company".
The agreement with the patient and her relatives was reached in July 2023: they accepted 1.6 million payment «by way of amicable definition, settlement, silence and definitive satisfaction of all damages, prejudices and claims, including juridical and personal iure hereditatis, patrimonial and non-patrimonial, present and future, known, unknown, even unexpected and unforeseeable, legal interests and monetary revaluation". Everything emerges only now that Brotzu had to return part of the sum to the company and did so with a very recently published resolution.
Enrico Fresu
