{"id":1042,"date":"2019-07-22T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2019-07-21T13:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T18:52:05","slug":"u-s-court-of-appeals-reverses-7-million-damage-award-for-babys-brain-injury-caused-by-physicians-malpractice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-reverses-7-million-damage-award-for-babys-brain-injury-caused-by-physicians-malpractice\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses $7 Million Damage Award for Baby\u2019s Brain Injury Caused by Physician\u2019s Malpractice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This case arose from the tragic set of events involving A.F., a baby born with severe respiratory problems who developed permanent brain damage. A.F.\u2019s mother, Kayla Butts, brought this lawsuit claiming that A.F.\u2019s brain damage was caused by the medical malpractice of Dr. Sarah Hardy. It was alleged that Dr. Hardy should have transferred Baby A.F. from the hospital where A.F. was born to a hospital with a neonatal intensive care unit that could have provided the care A.F. needed in the hours after her birth.<\/p>\n<p>After a bench trial, the district court agreed and entered judgment in favor of Kayla Butts for over $7 million in damages. On appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals considered whether she presented sufficient evidence to establish that Dr. Hardy violated the applicable standard of care. <\/p>\n<p>Because the district court\u2019s finding on that issue was clearly erroneous, the court of appeals reversed the district court\u2019s order and vacated the judgment against Dr. Hardy.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-reverses-7-million-damage-award-for-babys-brain-injury-caused-by-physicians-malpractice\/#more-1042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This case arose from the tragic set of events involving A.F., a baby born with severe respiratory problems who developed permanent brain damage. A.F.\u2019s mother, Kayla Butts, brought this lawsuit claiming that A.F.\u2019s brain damage was caused by the medical malpractice of Dr. Sarah Hardy. It was alleged that Dr. Hardy should have transferred Baby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,34,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-experts","category-hypoxic-ischemic-encephalopathy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses $7 Million Damage Award for Baby\u2019s Brain Injury Caused by Physician\u2019s Malpractice &#8212; Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This case arose from the tragic set of events involving A.F., a baby born with severe respiratory problems who developed permanent brain damage. 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