The Missouri birth injury jury awarded $28.1 million in compensatory damages and an additional $20 million in punitive damages against the defendants, Mercy Hospital, Mercy Clinic, and Dr. Daniel McNeive…medicalmalpracticelawyers, $48.1M Missouri Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict
The parents’ lawsuit alleged that the defendants negligently allowed the mother, Sarah Anyan, to push for more than twelve hours during labor and delivery despite signs of fetal distress that required an earlier Cesarean delivery. As a result, the newborn suffered seizures less than 24 hours after birth. He spent 46 days in the NICU and suffered permanent brain injury, resulting in cerebral palsy, according to the parents’ medical malpractice claims.
Both parents had previously worked at Mercy Hospital: Sarah, as a cardiac nurse, and her husband as a respiratory therapist. Sarah now provides full-time care for her son.
The amount of this verdict is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in Missouri.