Monthly Archives: September 2019

A sailor who gave birth in a Navy hospital has received $11.5 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the baby suffered brain injuries. According to the Virginian-Pilot, the child was born in Guam, where local laws don’t cap malpractice claims. Had the child been born in Virginia, where the parents are from, any award would have been capped at $2.15 million. Attorneys for the woman and her husband, who is also in the Navy, were happy with the settlement, saying that the government was reasonable with how it handled litigation. Court documents indicated that in 2014, the child was born at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Guam, where the couple was stationed there at the time. The mother reportedly arrived at the hospital and her water broke about 6 hours later. However, the child was not born until about 20 hours later. The lawsuit indicated doctors found fetal stool…
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