Illinois family awarded $28M in birth injury lawsuit
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Teray Boyd received a $28 million verdict following her child's traumatic birth experience, where brain damage resulted from the medical team's failure to execute an emergency…
A Cook County jury has awarded $28 million to a family after their child suffered permanent brain damage during childbirth. The boy's mother, Teray Boyd, alleged that doctors ignored signs of fetal distress during labour and failed to perform an emergency C-section, resulting in severe injuries that will leave her son with lifelong disabilities, FOX 32 Chicago reports.A medical negligence lawsuitTeray Boyd’s attorney, Stephen Blecha of Coplan + Crane, said the pregnancy went smoothly, but everything changed when she went into labour in December 2023 at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago.
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