New
Suit was filed last week against famed L.A. hospital Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
The Associated Press
Posted: Feb 13, 2018 10:00 PM ET
Last Updated: Feb 13, 2018 10:01 PM ET
The family of Bill Paxton has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a Los Angeles hospital and the surgeon who performed the actor’s heart surgery shortly before he died.
The suit filed on Feb. 9 against Cedars-Sinai Medical Center alleges the surgeon used a “high risk and unconventional surgical approach” that was unnecessary and that he lacked the experience to perform.
Paxton’s death certificate says he died Feb. 25, 2017, from a stroke, 11 days after surgery to replace a heart valve and repair aorta damage.
A spokeswoman for the hospital says patient privacy laws forbid her from giving comment on Paxton’s case, but nothing is more important to Cedars-Sinai than the health and safety of its patients.
Paxton starred in the films Titanic and Aliens, and the HBO series Big Love.
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