On February 9, a jury in the notoriously pro-defendant Kandiyohi County, Minnesota awarded $23.2 million to a family whose daughter is severely handicapped due to oxygen deprivation during her birth at Rice Memorial Hospital.
Walkup Law Office partner Mike Kelly flew out to Minnesota to try the case, along with local attorneys in Minnesota.
After an 11-day trial, with temperatures below freezing outdoors, the jury found that the physician and hospital had both been negligent in their care of the infant, and that their negligence had caused her continuing problems, including spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, cortical impairment, neurological difficulties, and seizures.
The jury deliberated for just over three hours before returning the verdict and awarding $23.2 million to the family.
