{"id":309,"date":"2010-04-11T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2010-04-11T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T16:20:09","slug":"illinois-family-awarded-29-1-million-in-malpractice-case-that-left-their-baby-a-quadriplegic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/illinois-family-awarded-29-1-million-in-malpractice-case-that-left-their-baby-a-quadriplegic.html","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Family Awarded $29.1 Million In Malpractice Case That Left Their Baby a Quadriplegic"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0A family has secured $29.1 million in a medical malpractice case where they claimed their son became a quadriplegic due to negligence during his birth at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/24-7\/2142707,CST-NWS-verdict06.article\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/24-7\/2142707,CST-NWS-verdict06.article<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0The payout for the Arroyo family is a combination of an award they received last Friday from Judge Amy St. Eve of the Northern District of Illinois and a prior settlement. The judge awarded the family $22.6 million, in addition to the $6.5 million settlement the family reached with the hospital in 2009.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0The Arroyo\u2019s son, Christian, is a spastic quadriplegic who has cerebral palsy and can\u2019t walk, talk or eat through his mouth.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Maria Arroyo came to Northwestern Hospital on May 16, 2003 with labor pains. Because of the baby\u2019s premature condition and the fact that the mother\u2019s water had broken, Maria was supposed to receive antibiotics to ward against Group Beta Strep Infection for the baby.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0But the obstetrician, a federal employee, didn\u2019t administer the antibiotics to Maria, and during the baby\u2019s first few hours he was showing symptoms of infection. But the government pediatricians still didn\u2019t step in and order the antibiotics for Christian.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0The infection spread from Christian\u2019s blood stream to his brain, causing permanent damage and cerebral palsy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cHad the federal government\u2019s doctors followed the standard of care and provided the antibiotics to Maria or Christian at the appropriate timed, Christian would have been a normal baby boy,\u201d\u00a0 David Pritchard, one of the family\u2019s lawyers, said in a prepared statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0A family has secured $29.1 million in a medical malpractice case where they claimed their son became a quadriplegic due to negligence during his birth at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/24-7\/2142707,CST-NWS-verdict06.article \u00a0\u00a0The payout for the Arroyo family is a combination of an award they received last Friday from Judge Amy St. Eve of the Northern District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[394,8,396,4,395,393],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-award","tag-cerebral-palsy","tag-illinois-verdict","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-negligence","tag-northwestern-memoria-hospital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}