Illinois Jury Awards $23.5 Million To Child Born With Brain Damage

Mealey's (April 8, 2019, 7:30 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois jury awarded a child who was born with severe brain damage $23,594,000 on March 25, siding with the child’s guardian, who argued that a hospital’s health care providers failed to respond to signs of fetal distress and delayed delivering the child by cesarean section, which caused a lack of oxygen to her brain (Amirah Whiten, et al. v. Presence Saint Joseph Hospital – Chicago, No. 2015-L-006427, Ill. Cir., Cook Co.)....