Case Result

$1.3M

Medical Malpractice

2020

Trial Verdict

Washington, DC

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Case Details

Judgment affirmed for a journalist whose physician negligently failed to direct immediate testing for decreased fetal movement, leading to the baby's death.

Additional Notes

The D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment of $1,250,000 for a journalist who, in the thirty-eighth week of her pregnancy, informed her physician that she detected decreased fetal movement, but he negligently failed to direct her to undergo immediate testing that would have disclosed potentially fatal fetal distress and that would have prompted an emergency cesarean section to save the baby’s life. The court held that her obstetrical expert’s testimony provided a legally sufficient basis for the jury to find that the physician’s conduct caused the baby’s death.

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