{"id":1165,"date":"2020-10-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2020-10-20T06:07:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T11:07:41","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reverses-50-3-million-jury-verdict-in-birth-injury-on-trial-error-made-as-to-late-discovery-disclosures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-50-3-million-jury-verdict-in-birth-injury-on-trial-error-made-as-to-late-discovery-disclosures\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reverses $50.3 Million Jury Verdict in Birth Injury on Trial Error Made as to Late Discovery Disclosures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julien Florez was born on March 22, 2009. His mother, Aimee Florez, was admitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northshore.org\/locations\/our-hospitals\/evanston-hospital\/\">Evanston Hospital<\/a> just after noon that day, five days after her due date. All tests and ultrasounds registered normal. After a procedure to break her water, Julien experienced a prolonged deceleration in fetal heart rate after his mother was given an epidural. Pitocin was administered by a second doctor to accelerate labor, and when Julien\u2019s heart rate decelerated, a C-section was ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Julien was delivered by C-section with an Apgar score of 1 out of 10, blue, and with an abnormally low heart rate requiring intervention due to lack of blood to the brain. Body cooling was initiated to slow or prevent additional brain damage. Within five hours of birth, Julien showed signs of seizures. <\/p>\n<p>Julien, represented by his parents, Aimee and David Florez, filed a lawsuit. Julien suffered from cerebral palsy. At age 9, he exhibited global delays, significant speech and language deficit, requiring assistance eating, dressing and with hygiene as well as 24-hour supervision.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-50-3-million-jury-verdict-in-birth-injury-on-trial-error-made-as-to-late-discovery-disclosures\/#more-1165\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julien Florez was born on March 22, 2009. His mother, Aimee Florez, was admitted to Evanston Hospital just after noon that day, five days after her due date. All tests and ultrasounds registered normal. After a procedure to break her water, Julien experienced a prolonged deceleration in fetal heart rate after his mother was given [&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":[23,15,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-injury","category-cerebral-palsy","category-illinois-trial-practice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Reverses $50.3 Million Jury Verdict in Birth Injury on Trial Error Made as to Late Discovery Disclosures &#8212; Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Julien Florez was born on March 22, 2009. 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