A baby born with his umbilical cord wrapped tightly around his neck and later diagnosed with cerebral palsy had a $10 million medical negligence award affirmed, but the Texas high court on Friday reversed a lower court’s application of the state’s “periodic-payments” statute.
The child’s mother, Ana Ramirez, sued Columbia Valley Healthcare System alleging that nurses who attended her labor had caused her son’s cerebral palsy, because they took 20 minutes to call her obstetrician after the baby’s heartbeat wasn’t detectable. Due to the delay in delivering him, the baby had suffered from lack on oxygen to his brain. The ...
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