Case Result

$7.8M

Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury

Trial Verdict

New York, NY

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Case Details

Parents of a 12-year-old boy who suffered brain damage from a flesh-eating bacteria won a $7.8 million jury award against a hospital. Jonathan Reynolds was taken to Dyersburg Regional Medical Center after he cut his knee, but doctors failed to properly treat the cut and diagnose the bacteria.

Additional Notes

This was the second time the case went to trial. The first trial ended in a mistrial in 2007. This time, although the jury issued its award, the doctors settled before trial, and the hospital settled in the middle of the trial. The jury finished its work and decided that the family should receive $7.8 million, and found the owner of the amusement park, which is no longer in business, 13 percent responsible for the injury. While the jury would have put 20 percent of the blame on each of the two doctors who treated Reynolds and made the hospital liable for 47 percent, the actual amounts agreed upon in the settlement are confidential.

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