Dennis and Kimberly Quaid settle with Cedars-Sinai over medical error

I feel really bad for the Quaids. There is really nothing that is going to make them feel better. There is no amount of money that will make this OK for them. Trust me I know.

by Vicki Hyman/The Star-Ledger

BRIAN VANDER BRUG/LOS ANGELES TIMES/AP PHOTODennis Quaid and wife Kimberly talk about the medical mistake that threatened the health of their newborn babies last year.

Dennis Quaid and wife Kimberly will get $750,000 from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where workers administered 1,000 times the normal dose of a blood thinner to their newborn twins a year ago, the Associated Press reports. That settlement, revealed in documents filed in Los Angeles on Monday, only pertains to the parents' damages; the Quaids can still pursue claims on behalf of their children.

According to the documents, the hospital doesn't admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement, although at the time of the overdose, the hospital's chief medical officer called it a "preventable error, involving a failure to follow our standard policies and procedures, and there is no excuse for that to occur at Cedars-Sinai."

The Quaids had filed suit against the maker of the blood thinner, saying their packaging was confusing, but the case has been dismissed.