Albuquerque, US – 25th August, 2018: A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage
KOB-TV in Albuquerque reports the jury this month 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 11½ 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.
Source: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2018-08-25/couple-wins-74m-for-babys-brain-damage-caused-in-delivery