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Victoria: we have reached an agreement with Zurich

maite prim Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain

December 5, 2016 - Hello everyone,

We want to let you know that thanks to your support on Change.org, as well as the diligent efforts of our lawyer, Borja Masramon, we have reached an agreement with ZURICH.

We also want to let you know that the pediatrician no longer practices as such.

We can never forget that without you it would not have been possible.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Marañón-Prim Family

Our daughter's name is Marta. She is 19 years old, brave, kind, and has a great sense of humor.

Seven years ago, we took her to our pediatrician at the public health service because she had problems that, in our opinion, were not normal, but our doctor always told us not to worry and we fully trusted her. She was our Doctor, we considered her a good professional and we placed all our trust in her.

We trusted her when the vomiting and frequent headaches started. We trusted her when the migraines and dizziness began; her explanation was that migraines were hereditary because I suffered from them too. We even trusted her when our daughter started speaking and walking in an unusual way. Every symptom led to a visit to the pediatrician.

In the official notes, the doctor writes, "The mother comes in and is afraid that her daughter has a neurological disease." She treated me like a hysterical mother, telling me to accept that my daughter was clumsy and suggesting that she do Hip-hop as a solution to the problem.She insisted on performing neurological exams with simple tests like touching her nose. I later learned that these tests are not effective for all tumors, but only for very specific ones, which is clearly a serious oversight for not sending a child to a specialist or ordering an MRI.

The thing is, my daughter had a benign tumor that has been growing and destroying her brain. Are we always going to think we committed a terrible crime? Should we trust the doctor?

Currently my daughter has all kinds of very serious problems, the first is that she has been left in a wheelchair, she can hardly speak, she has had to have surgery we don't know how many times and now she has a disability of 76%, an irrecoverable right facial paralysis, a great loss of hearing, double vision and a long etcetera of health problems derived from this tumor.

For all these reasons we decided to file a complaint with the Criminal Court.

The forensic doctor of the Terrassa Court (Barcelona) itself wrote that we were facing a clear case of medical negligence; the Prosecutor also affirms that it is a clear case of medical negligence and asks for 3 years in prison for the doctor.

We thought it wouldn't be necessary to go to court. We believed that if all the administrative agents agreed with us—since they have no vested interest—Zurich, the insurance company that covered the doctor in the course of her professional practice, would agree to pay the compensation, which would allow us to give our daughter all the care she needs.

But not, It seems that Zurich Insurance doesn't want to pay, or even talk to us. I repeat, they don't even want to talk to us to try to find a solution that could alleviate Marta's situation and that of our family.

Time is running out for Marta; my daughter is wasting away, and we need the money to access other treatments. The question we keep asking is: Why isn't Zurich paying if it's their obligation? What's the point of insurance if you have to wait years to receive compensation that might not even arrive in time?

We hope that once her case becomes known and people discover how Zurich Insurance behaves in a situation like my daughter's, perhaps they will change their minds.

We need your support to put pressure on Zurich Insurance and the Catalan Health Service (Servei Català de la Salut) so they stop delaying Marta's case. They need to stop seeing us as an expense in their bloated profit account, earned from collecting premiums on all our policies, and at the very least agree to meet with us.