Monthly Archives: January 2020

A Washington jury recently awarded a family $23.9 million in damages after it claimed that a child suffered permanent brain injuries due to suffocation during her birth. According to the Port Hadlock Leader, a Kitsap County jury determined that Jefferson County Public Hospital District was negligent in handling the child’s birth, resulting in injuries. Jefferson Healthcare said it would appeal the verdict, which was handed down in December. Lawyers for the family argued that providers with the hospital missed several critical signs during the birthing process in 2014, including that her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, cutting off her supply to oxygen. The attorneys argued that the healthcare providers used a fetal heart monitor during the delivery, but negligently picked up the mother’s heartbeat instead of the baby’s. Following her birth, the child had to be resuscitated to begin breathing on her own. She now has permanent brain injuries…
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