Daily News | A record medical malpractice verdict goes against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
A Philadelphia jury on Friday awarded more than $180 million to a child born in 2018 with severe brain injuries at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, attorneys for the child’s mother said.
“This injury was entirely avoidable, meaning had they delivered an hour before they did, this child would have avoided all neurological injury and would have been a normal, bouncy 5-year-old running around terrorizing the world,” Briggs Bedigian, an attorney who represented the family, said in an interview Tuesday.The child has cerebral palsy, permanent brain damage, and substantial neurodevelopmental delays, making him completely dependent on others for care, according to court documents.
The previous record was $100 million, awarded in 2000 for a child who suffered brain damage and the amputation of an arm because of a botched surgical procedure.
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