A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage.
The jury in late August ruled that a women’s health clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico, didn’t properly follow Lorenza Botello’s pregnancy and a doctor injured her baby during delivery.
According to the lawsuit, medical professionals from the Franklin, Tennessee-based Community Health Systems failed to monitor the baby’s growth, who weighed 111/2 pounds at birth.
Botello’s attorney, Kent Buckingham says a doctor forced a vaginal birth despite the mother’s plea for a cesarean section in 2012.
Buckingham says, the baby, Jonathon, suffered nerve and brain damage.
An attorney for Community Health Systems declined to comment.
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