$22 Million Awarded To Family of Woman Who Died During Child Birth
Article posted on:02/12/2008
Last month, Illinois jurors handed down a record verdict to the family of a woman who died from complications during child birth. Jurors awarded $22 million to the family, finding that the hospital staff's failure to treat the woman's high blood pressure resulted in a massive brain hemorrhage. According to Plaintiffs' lawyers, the hospital staff negligently failed to properly treat the woman's high blood pressure during labor, thereby causing the massive hemorrhage. After suffering the brain hemorrhage, the woman was placed on a ventilator and died four days later. Her son, Richard, was delivered by Caesarean section and survived. The verdict is the largest award involving the death of a woman in Illinois, according to the Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter.
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