"Seattle Children’s Hospital was hit with three lawsuits Monday, alleging the esteemed institution failed to provide a safe environment in operating rooms that repeatedly have been infected with Aspergillus mold over the past 18 years.
One lawsuit, seeking class-action status, was filed on behalf of four children, all of whom it claims were sickened by the mold at the hospital. Three of the children — Aiden Wills, Logan Shaffer and Ian Gunnell — have since died, according to the lawsuit. None was older than 11.
The lawsuit seeking class-action status alleges that hospital management engaged in a yearslong “cover-up, designed to reassure its patients, doctors, nurses, and the public that its premises were safe, when in fact they were not.”
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