Late ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Brayden Smith’s Parents Sue Hospital For Malpractice
The parents of late Jeopardy! contestant Brayden Smith, 24, who unexpectedly died on February 2021, filed a lawsuit against Nevada physicians Godwin Ofikwu and Irfana Razzaq, as well as Dignity Health and St. Rose Dominican Hospital-San Martin Campus on the grounds of alleged negligence and malpractice. The medical team at St. Rose Dominican Hospital failed to give Brayden anticoagulants, which is a type of blood thinner meant to prevent blood clots, following a January 2021 surgery to remove his colon, his parents allege. About three weeks later, Brayden died of bilateral pulmonary emboli, mu...