$ 14,650,000.00 medical malpractice recovery for a 6-month-old female $14,650,000.00 partial recovery on behalf of a 6-month-old female who was born with a birth syndrome characterized by abnormal positioning of abdominal organs. Many children born with this syndrome do not have a properly functioning spleen and therefore must be on antibiotics to avoid overwhelming infection. Although many of the defendant doctors and hospitals who treated the plaintiff denied responsibility, a number of them settled the claims against them for the total sum of $14,400,000.00, based upon their alleged failure to recognize or check for the absence of a functioning spleen. The failure to put the baby on antibiotics, and the failure to alert the parents that children with such a condition must be treated on an emergency basis at the first sign of illness or infection, resulted in the baby developing a severe infectious process. This led to gangrene of her arms and legs. She is now a quadruple amputee, both legs amputated above the knee, her left arm amputated above the wrist, and several finger stumps remaining on her right hand. At the time of this publication, our lawsuit is continuing against those defendants who refused to settle and who may be responsible for the injuries to our client.
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