Cook County jury awards $28M in childbirth injury case

It really is so tragic, Lauren. Tere Boyd's attorney says her pregnancy was smooth, but things changed midway through her labor when warning signs emerged that he says should have prompted an emergency C-section. The jury's recent $28 million verdict comes more than two years after Boyd filed a medical negligence lawsuit against five doctors at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago. The complaint alleges those doctors failed During her labor in 2023, according to her attorney, her son Lennox suffered a severe brain injury caused by a critical reduction in oxygen and blood flow to his brain. He says this all could have been prevented if doctors had taken a different approach during delivery. That monitor showed on December 9th that this baby was not getting enough oxygenated blood. And when that happens, the babies put a great risk of severe catastrophic injury and what needed to happen was they needed to be a change in plan. They were planning on a vaginal delivery and they needed to change the plan to a C-section. Unfortunately that was never done and young Lennox was born on the verge of death. Lennox will live with lifelong disabilities as a result of his birth injuries. His mother has since started a nonprofit called Live for Lennox, supporting children with disabilities and complex medical needs along with their families. While the University of Illinois Hospital was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, five doctors who practiced there were, we reached out to the hospital for a response to this verdict, but have not yet heard back. Lauren. All right. Casey, thank you so much for telling this story.