The wrongful death lawsuit accused the hospital of medical negligence leading up the boy’s birth, resulting in brain injury and his subsequent death.
University of Chicago Medical Center must pay $14 million to the estate of a boy who died several years after he was born with severe brain damage at the hospital, a Cook County jury decided.
She was taken to the emergency department and seen by nurses. Yet there was no written record of any doctor assessing her in the emergency department, nor of any call by emergency department staff to have her evaluated by labor and delivery personnel, according to the lawsuit. Medical personnel performed chest compressions on the baby, and intubated him within two minutes of his delivery, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleged that the hospital did not appropriately monitor the baby before he was born, and didn’t consult quickly enough with an obstetrician who could perform a Cesarian section.The $14 million verdict is “a significant recognition for the family that they received negligent care which took their son from them and destroyed his life while he lived it,” said Charles Bletsas, senior counsel with law firm Grant & Eisenhofer, who represented the boy’s estate in the case.
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