The devastating ramifications of that brain injury and diagnosis include that J.H. is nonambulatory, cannot speak, he has cortical visual impairment, poor control over his limbs, and he is fed by way of a gastrostomy tube…medicalmalpracticelawyers, Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms $207M Birth Injury Medical Malpractice Verdict Against Pennsylvania Hospital
During the early morning hours of February 22, 2018, then nineteen years old D.H. was pregnant with her first baby, J.H. when her water broke. Around 11:30 a.m. D.H. was transported by ambulance to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (“HUP”). Within three hours of arrival, the baby was delivered.
Upon waking up from general anesthesia, D.H. inquired about the baby, only to receive vague responses from her mother that someone was coming to talk with her. Ultimately, D.H. was informed that there had been complications and J.H. was in intensive care with a brain injury. Thereafter, J.H. was transported to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (“CHOP”).
Throughout his life J.H. will be dependent on caregivers to feed, toilet, and clean him. Moreover, J.H. will face a lifetime of growth-related and orthopedic issues, scoliosis, painful spasticity, muscle tightness and joint pain, etc. J.H.’s future holds medicinal interventions (orally, and potential use of such procedures as Baclofen pumps, where it goes right into the brain) and orthopedic surgeries.
The Pennsylvania medical malpractice jury awarded $182,737,791.00 in damages.