Logroño (EFE).- Two men who were exchanged by mistake at birth in the General de Guadalajara and Vall d’Hebrón hospitals in Barcelona in 1971 and 1972 claim some three million euros for the damages caused to the respective health services.
This was announced this Tuesday by the lawyer José Sáez Morga, who also handles the case of one of the girls exchanged in 2002 at the Hospital de Logroño who was known in 2021.
The claim of 3 million euros is the maximum established by the Law of Consumers and Users for damages that can be considered irreparable, explained the lawyer at a press conference.
In the case of La Rioja, last April, the Court ordered the insurance company of the Rioja Health Service to pay compensation of 850,000 euros to the young woman who had been exchanged, of which she has only received 215,000 euros, for what that a double claim remains open, one for the difference between the two amounts and another for the entirety up to 3 million that he initially requested, the lawyer explained.
In the other two cases, the claim of the man from Guadalajara amounts to 2.9 million euros and that of Barcelona, to 3 million.