Injuries:
Birth injury: Mild cerebral palsy and mild brain injury causing cognitive and motor dysfunction
Liability Facts:
Plaintiff claimed that the treating doctor was not qualified to manage the High-Risk pregnancy and failed to identify and treat various medical conditions that existed in the pregnancy which lead to one twin dying and the other twin suffering a hypoxic stroke.
Detailed Case Summary*: Click here to view link
Rank*:
Per the Recorder this was ranked # 1 largest medical mal practice verdict in 2014 in California. Per the Daily Journal this was ranked # 3 for top plaintiffs’ verdict by impact in the state of California for 2014.
*This case is the subject of an appeal and it is not yet know what the total recovery will be following the appeal and potential retrial of certain parts of the damage award.