{"id":323,"date":"2010-04-13T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2010-04-13T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:08:55","slug":"jury-awards-florida-mom-10-million-in-cerebral-palsy-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/jury-awards-florida-mom-10-million-in-cerebral-palsy-lawsuit.html","title":{"rendered":"Jury Awards Florida Mom $10 Million in Cerebral Palsy Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>\u00a0A Florida mother was awarded $10 million in a case where she alleged an ambulance service\u2019s negligence lead to her son getting cerebral palsy. That\u2019s because the ambulance took her\u00a0to the wrong hospital when she was in labor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutlawsuits.com\/cerebral-palsy-lawsuit-birth-in-ambulance-9606\/\">http:\/\/www.aboutlawsuits.com\/cerebral-palsy-lawsuit-birth-in-ambulance-9606\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0The medical malpractice lawsuit had been brought by Margarita Chess of Volusia County, naming as defendants EVAC Ambulance, Bert Fish Medical Center, Halifax Medical Center, Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando and two physicians.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0All of the parties except the ambulance service had settled with Chase for $1.4 million before the case when to trial, the Orlando Sentinel reported.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Chess\u2019s son was premature, born when she was just six months into her pregnancy. As she went into labor in 2003, she was first at Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach. She was then supposed to be transferred and transported by EVAC to Halifax Medical Center. But somehow, the ambulance was instead sent to Arnold Palmer Hospital, more than 50 miles away.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Chess\u2019s son, Addison Chase, was born on the way to Arnold Palmer.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0The malpractice suit alleged that the infant had trouble breathing after he was born. The paramedics performed CPR, but Addison\u2019s brain was deprived of oxygen. As a result he sustained brain damage, and now has the long-term disabilities of cerebral palsy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A Florida mother was awarded $10 million in a case where she alleged an ambulance service\u2019s negligence lead to her son getting cerebral palsy. That\u2019s because the ambulance took her\u00a0to the wrong hospital when she was in labor. http:\/\/www.aboutlawsuits.com\/cerebral-palsy-lawsuit-birth-in-ambulance-9606\/ \u00a0The medical malpractice lawsuit had been brought by Margarita Chess of Volusia County, naming as defendants [&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":[8,9,4,5],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cerebral-palsy","tag-cerebral-palsy-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-medical-malpractice-attorney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}